I have a ASP.NET Core application that uses cookie authentication and runs on web farm. The data protection keys are stored in DB. My application implements the IXmlRepository and the ASP.NET Core ...

I was wondering if anyone had successfully used DPAPI with a user store in a web farm enviroment? Because our application is a recently converted from 1.1 to 2.0 ASP.NET app, we're using a custom ...

What is the difference between Web farm and Web Garden?

I need to deploy an orchard application within a site that sits on a web farm, behind a load balancer. This seems like it would be a fairly common scenario, but I can't seem to find any guidance on...

I need to implement SessionSecurityTokenCache in order to be able to use WIF in a load-balanced web farm. Is there a web-farm suitable (e.g. SQL based) implementation of this class that I can use, ...

I have Overlapping Recycling configured for my ASP.NET MVC site. As I understand it (from this SO question), if I Recycle the Application Pool, this will spin up a new w3wp.exe process to take up...

We (our IT partner really) recently changed some DNS for a web farmed site we have, so that the two production server have round-robin DNS switching between them. Prior to this switch we didn't rea...

I'm trying to understand does "farm" mean in computing, so that, if a farm can be exemplified as a cluster, there must be something that a farm is independently of what a cluster is. How is it dif...

We have installed .net 4.5 Framework in one of our web servers. Our applications are targeted for .net 4.0 and run off multiple servers behind a load balancer. After the installation we get the fo...

First of all to give you a bit of background on the current environment. We have a number of ASP.NET applications, all of which use session for certain aspects. We are "Load Balanced" over multiple...

Although the question title appears a bit subjective I am sure there is not a lot to discuss. I am currently working on a MVC project where I am using TemData container in some areas. When I read t...

Our site uses ADFS for auth. To reduce the cookie payload on every request we're turning IsSessionMode on (see Your fedauth cookies on a diet). The last thing we need to do to get this working in ...

I have what I think is a fairly complicated question so I will do my best to articulate it here. I am looking for a single sign on (SSO) solution. I am aware of many of the options out there but h...

I have a problem with an Azure project with one WebRole but multiple instances that uses cookieless sessions. The application doesn't need Session storage, so it's not using any session storage pro...

Given the idea of a web application (.NET 3.5+) Browser web app the authentication using forms will result in a similar line of code FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(strUsrNm, True) this is ...

I just stumbled across the concept of a "Web Garden" in an IIS App Pool. That is, when more than one process serves the same webpage. From what I understand, this means ASP.NET InProc sessions have...

I'm working on a Web project using Asp.Net MVC, which I'll have to deploy to a farm environment. I've read a lot of articles and I'm thinking on disabling completely the SessionState, I thin...

What will be the most efficient way to make an ASP.NET MVC application web-farm ready. Most importantly sharing the current user's information (Context) and (not so important) cached objects such...

There's alot of information out there on setting up LAMP stacks on a single box, or perhaps moving MySQL onto it's own box, but growing beyond that doesn't seem to be very well documented. My curr...

Assuming there are a number of load-balanced web servers in a web farm, is it safe to use the app/web server time in the application code for getting the system date/time or should we leave this re...

UPDATE: looks like I've misunderstood what TempData is for and what it isn't. It definitively shouldn't be used to "keep certain session-wide data" as I asked initially (see ASP.NET MVC TempData Is...

I am looking for information on how to create an ASP.NET web farm - that is, how to make an ASP.NET application (initially designed to work on a single web server) work on 2, 3, 10, etc. servers? ...