Cookies: Stability

[webmigit]

OK... I know that cookies are more easily stabilized than session variables because they are a client variable, not a server variable and thus two users can't write simultaneously and crash one another's cookie crumb trail..

Here's the question though..

I've got two sites, both I expect to be popular quickly, one uses sessions and cflock.. I CFLOCK only in the appropriate places, another uses cookies and encrypt()'ed passwords.. I want to know.. am I going to get reliable performance from the cookies.. assuming the database feeds data fast enough, will cookies give me.. well, I never pass up a chance for agood pun.. bad indigestion?

Thanks,
Tony Hicks

 

[GunJack]

Hey Tony,

I don't think you'll have any trouble with them. I have a client whose site I built in CF using cookies and session variables and it has no performance problems. It currently does about 2 million hits a day with between 10,000 and 15,000 visitors. We assign cookies to every visitor and have never had any trouble with them.

Good luck,
GJ

 

[webmigit]

Oh.. hey if you wanna send me some of that traffic, that'd be fine ..

LOL anyway.. thanks, you get a purple star for your post.