Thanks for sharing your experience with DELL server, sorry I did not provide more info about the DELL server, it's 1550 for WEB server (IIS 5.0) and 2550 for Access 2000.
About client variable vs. session variable, I'll keep it in mind.
Don
>Don,
>
>If they're PowerApp web 100 servers then I can believe it as I used to have
>four of those in a load balanced array running IIS5/CF5 on 256Mb RAM. Not
>one of the applications used the session scope at all though. We turned it
>off and opted for the client scope so we could have roaming sessions rather
>than having to have sticky sessions. When we expanded the site from 1 old
>DELL 2400 to the 4 PowerApps and 2 2450's, we re-coded the site to use
>client vars exclusively. It took 4 weeks, was a real pain but paid for
>itself in improved stability and performance within days of going live.
>
>Those 6 servers I believe are still in service (I left that company in
>January) and are serving circa 3-5 million pages a month. All of the grunt
>of the application is in the clustered SQL Server DB running on the 2450's
>with a shared external RAID array in an active/passive setup.
>
>I don't see any reason why those servers won't carry on running till they
>finally fail as the way they are configured, there is no (not one single
>bit) of critical software or CF source on them so they can be taken of line,
>rebooted or replaced at anytime day or night with no effect on the rest of
>the system.
>
>If you do have PowerApp web 100 application servers then you may have
>trouble locating memory. Crucial dont stock it any more, DELL tell you to
>replace the servers.... we had a nightmare of a time trying to upgrade them.
>In the end we decided to do something different and augmented the system
>with two new DELL 2650s (one as an application server and one as a file
>server) taking some of the strain off of the original web-servers. Both the
>2450's and the 2650's have 2Gb of RAM.
>
>Paul
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