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How many IIS servers are you supporting?<br />
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Have you considered clustering the SQL Server(s) for fault tolerance?
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How many IIS servers are you supporting?

Have you considered clustering the SQL Server(s) for fault tolerance?

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Only 3 IIS servers. The cost of clustering with new OS licenses and sql licenses to support the clustering is not an option so I'm trying to see what fault tolerance we can create for free. At minimum I can load balance the sites across the 3 IIS servers to give some small amount of resilience. I need to be able to include session state now.
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Only 3 IIS servers. The cost of clustering with new OS licenses and sql licenses to support the clustering is not an option so I'm trying to see what fault tolerance we can create for free. At minimum I can load balance the sites across the 3 IIS servers to give some small amount of resilience. I need to be able to include session state now.

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Running in a small environment of windows standard servers with asp.net applications in IIS with SQL standard backend. We currently have session state stored in sql server but i'm looking for other providers in case the sql server is down.<br />
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Are there any free/open source session state alternatives out there that will have high availability included without requiring an enterprise version of windows/sql?
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Running in a small environment of windows standard servers with asp.net applications in IIS with SQL standard backend. We currently have session state stored in sql server but i'm looking for other providers in case the sql server is down.

Are there any free/open source session state alternatives out there that will have high availability included without requiring an enterprise version of windows/sql?

ASP.Net Session State alternatives

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications

ASP.NET

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Windows Server operating systems. All current versions are built on a modular architecture; modules can be added or removed individually so that those required for specific functionality are installed. The full installation of IIS includes HTTP, security, content, compression, caching, logging and diagnostics.

Microsoft IIS Web Server

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