title: Why is it a bad idea to use Session to store state in high traffic websites?
body: <p>I am watching the ASP.NET learn videos on asp.net/learn.  In this tutorial, they are building a quiz engine.  At one point, the narrator explains that we are going to use the Session object to maintain the state between each page (each page contains a question and four answers).  He says that "since this is a low traffic website" it is okay to use Session and that he doesn't have the time to implement a more sophisticated method.</p>
  
  <p>I am just wondering what alternate method(s) is he hinting at?  And why is session a bad choice for a high traffic website?</p>