Ok I’m sure this is pretty obvious. But when you say session state is persisted on the “server” in memory, are we talking about IIS or what? When I think of Server-side session State, I think memory in terms of IIS app pools and such. Am I off base or missing anything here?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/75x4ha6s.aspx
the term “server” could mean many things. Sure it’s “server-side” but what specific process / memory / area / app on the server are we talking about (IIS only? other?)
I wish MS would have explained what they mean because that’s pretty relative.
Specifically this, “store on server”
Storing Data on the Server (in memory)
• Session state
• Application state
• Profile Properties
so “on the server” where in memory and what process/app is handling each of these?
” Sure it’s “server-side” but what specific process / memory / area / app on the server are we talking about (IIS only? other?)”
Each site runs in an application pool and each application pool is basically a process on your web server. If your session is configured to be in process, your session objects will be stored in that process’ memory