Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > Use load balancer which keeps current connection on one web host. Hi Tomas. Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I do not yet have a stateful load-balancer available to me. > > Attachment directory stores temporary data. It does not matter which host > stores it as long as web client keeps talking to same host during session. > Address books and user preferences are stored in shared location, because > this data must be shared between web hosts. You don't know which web host > will be used by load balanced web client. > I can see how it makes sense to store preferences and addressbook data in a database when using a stateful load-balancer in front of a multi-webserver configuration. Both of those sets of data need to persist long-term, spanning the duration of multiple sessions. I still fail to see much benefit to using ADODB to store session data in a database with this configuration, as the session data could just be stored in a local filesystem if a stateful load-balancer is being used. When writing session data to local disk, the configuration is much simpler and the chance of any type of transient failure to access session data would be greatly reduced. If I come across as being argumentative about this, I don't mean to be and I do apologize. It just seems strange that folks have put effort into documenting this and making it work when there seems to be no compelling use for it. It's because of this that I asked the question in the first place. I really feel like I must be missing something obvious. Thanks again for your response, Dave -- Dave McMurtrie, SPE Email Systems Team Leader Carnegie Mellon University, Computing Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
