In regards to the Professional ASP.Net hosting plan (the High Availabilty plans). What 'Session State' storage option should be selected ? I understand, the "in-process" doesn't work, because it a future request goes to another server, you lost your session info. Should we be using a state server or the sql server option ? of should we create the session tables in our own sql server (I think you can create those tables using the aspnet_regsql.exe util and have it use a existing db ? )

Sorry if this is covered elsewhere, I couldn't find anything related to it in your knowledge base.

Regards

Hi,
I don't know much about ASP.net specifically, but db-based session storage is always a good option. Since the Professional plan is quite new, I'm not sure any of the main contributors on this forum know much about it. Don't be afraid to call up HMS and ask. When I first signed up with them, I called them twice a day while I was setting up my website (now I call them about once every 1.5 months).

I recommend using in-proc because the high availability plan is setup with load balancing technology called sticky sessions. This allows users of your website to maintain their session with one server instead of constantly switching between random servers in the cluster.