Many ASP.NET applications today are high traffic and are used by tens of thousands of users. These applications face performance issues because accessing the database is slow especially under high traffic situations. However, they cannot afford to be slow because so many users depend on them. To cater to this performance problem, ASP.NET provides a…
ASP.NET has become developers’ foremost choice in developing high traffic web applications. Because of its scalable nature, ASP.NET application tier can seamlessly handle thousands of concurrent users with their millions of requests per day. Such high traffic ASP.NET applications are deployed in a load balanced web farm with a load balancer routing user requests to…
Microsoft Azure provides a platform for ASP.NET applications in the cloud. Very often, these applications are high transaction and mission critical in nature. Therefore, it is very important that these applications are able to scale and that there are no data loss if a web server goes down at any time. ASP.NET Session State needs…
Many high traffic ASP.NET applications in Microsoft Azure are deployed over multiple Microsoft Azure regions in order to handle geographically separated traffic. In these situations, the load balancer always sends traffic to the Microsoft Azure region closest to the user for faster response time. In this scenario, you may run into a situation where you…
ASP.NET has become really popular for developing high traffic web applications. Many of these applications are deployed to multiple geographical locations. This is done either for disaster recovery purposes or for handling regional traffic by having the ASP.NET application closer to the end user. In case of disaster recovery, there is usually one active site…
There is absolutely no doubt about it. ASP.NET has come to age and a good majority of ASP.NET applications now are high traffic and mission-critical. That means you cannot afford unscheduled downtime of either the entire website or some of the servers where many users are getting bumped out. This is because these downtimes cost…