As I mentioned earlier here, my website ultimately is .NET ready
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Since I have quite a number of photos online that are off the record, I wanted to ‘protect’ them using forms authentication (within the former web hosting package developed in PHP I was using .htaccess and .htpassword files in order to protect complete directories).
So, from my professional experience, I know that saving data in session is feasible. However, the problem comes with a clustered environment that you usually run into in production environments. One possible solution now is to store session data in a database. Since the package I ordered at Easy CGI does not come with a MS SQL Server database (unless you add it as an additional feature to your package) you are limited to MS Access or MySql as your database management system … well, this actually isn’t that much of a choice since MS Access is not really suitable in a multi-user environment.