ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Serverhttp://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/10/03/asp-net-tip-when-to-use-which-session-server.aspxThere are 3 different ways you can store session in an ASP.NET application: InProc (default mode) State Server SQL Server InProc means we store the data in the same process (in memory) on the web server, in the worker process.&#160; This has some distincten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2) ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Server : EasyCodedhttp://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/10/03/asp-net-tip-when-to-use-which-session-server.aspx#8975336Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:03:14 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8975336 ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Server : EasyCoded<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.easycoded.com/aspnet-tip-when-to-use-which-session-server/">http://www.easycoded.com/aspnet-tip-when-to-use-which-session-server/</a></p> re: ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Serverhttp://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/10/03/asp-net-tip-when-to-use-which-session-server.aspx#8976030Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:00:31 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8976030Jess Coburn<p>Just FYI, a 10% decrease in performance is expected when going from inproc to state service and a 20% from inproc to sql server. &nbsp;This is a rule of thumb and can vary ofcourse. </p> <p>We're seeing state server becoming increasing popular with asp.net hosted sites and would recommend it over inproc because the performance hit really isn't noticeable. &nbsp;Ofcourse you do want to be be careful just how much data you'll store in session state though as we've seen the asp.net state service on very busy sites actually crash.</p> <p>hope it helps.</p>