KB Home \| Advanced Search \| News \| Glossary \| Login
ASP.NET Hosting Knowledge Base

My website session times out earlier than expected. Why?

Article Number: 57 | Rating: 5/5 from 1 votes | Last Updated: Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:52 AM

Please be advised that since your site is hosted on a shared server, there are other services on the server that may impact your site session. A bad programming practice (infinite looping, etc), a sudden jump in one of the site's traffic, etc are some of the examples of the activities on the server that may impact your site session.

Even though you have set your session to expire in 120 minutes, it still can terminate earlier than you expect.

This is why we do not recommend our clients to use session. Instead, it is highly recommended that you use Cookie. Big companies like Ebay never ever rely on session due to the limitations mentioned here. The way you program cookie is very, very similar with session, except you will use HttpCookie class, instead of session.

Attachments

Attachments

There are no attachments for this article.

Related Articles

How to solve ReportViewer error message: "An error has occurred during report processing. Input string was not in a correct format"

Viewed 4635 times since Tue, Jun 18, 2013

I get an error Server.CreateObject Failed when I try to use CDONTs. What can I do?

Viewed 1506 times since Tue, May 1, 2012

How often do you backup my website?

Viewed 2576 times since Tue, May 1, 2012

Will my Crystal Report IX (Crystal Report 9) work on your server?

Viewed 1440 times since Tue, May 1, 2012

My website session expires earlier than what I expect. What is wrong here?

Viewed 5340 times since Tue, May 15, 2012

Do I need a static IP?

Viewed 2713 times since Mon, May 7, 2012

I cannot find any article on this Knowledge Base that can solve my issues. What should I do?

Viewed 2005 times since Mon, Apr 30, 2012

I cannot see my website. What should I do?

Viewed 2123 times since Thu, May 3, 2012

How to Solve an Error Message "Validation of viewstate MAC failed"

Viewed 6255 times since Tue, Apr 2, 2013

My .CSHTML site is not working. What did I do wrong here?

Viewed 2261 times since Thu, May 3, 2012