Nappi Sight

In my last post on this topic we had sailed through our peak load season only to start experiencing frequent NCrashes which brought down our web farm on a fairly regular basis.  After many conversations with Alachisoft support (and licensing) we agreed to attempt a hail Mary.  Pretend like everything’s gonna be alright, although you know it won’t be We decided to upgrade from NCache Professional 3.8 to NCache Enterprise 4.1.  It wasn’t clear whether the issues we were having were version related 3.8 vs. 4.1 or edition related.  By upgrading to 4.1 Enterprise it gave us the opportunity not only to hope that the new version was more stable but more importantly gave us the opportunity to try different topologies.  The professional edition only allowed for one topology, Replicated Cache (synchronous).  Originally, Alachisoft gave us every assurance that at our scale and load this topology should work fine (as it did for many other clients).  They insisted that our troubles with NCache w

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