<p>I am in the process of figuring out a cache strategy for our current setup, currently have multiple web servers and wanted to know what is the best way to cache data in this environment. I have done research about MemCache and the native asp.net caching but wanted to get some feedback first. Should I go with a Linux box if I use MemCache or a win32 port of MemCache.</p>

[{'answer_id': 4153, 'author': 'Jonas Follesø', 'author_id': 1199387, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1199387', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>What about checking out <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/velocity" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft Velocity</a>?\nAnother option if you don\'t want to start using Microsoft CTP-ware is to check out <a href="http://www.alachisoft.com/ncache/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Nache</a> which allows distributed cache/session state management</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4171, 'author': 'Kevin Sheffield', 'author_id': 590, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/590', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://www.danga.com/memcached/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.danga.com/memcached/</a></p>\n\n<p>worked awesome for me and have heard nothing but goodness about it</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4197, 'author': 'lomaxx', 'author_id': 493, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/493', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Dare Obasanjo has a <a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/07/05/ASPNETCachingVsMemcachedSeekingEfficientDataPartitioningLookupAndRetrieval.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pretty good blog</a> post about this topic. You really need to assess what it is you\'re caching, why you\'re caching it and what your needs are before you can make a decision on a caching strategy.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 6991199, 'author': 'liang', 'author_id': 802589, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/802589', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Another open source choice other than memcached probably worth looking into is Shared Cache. I haven't played with it. But it says to have c# native implementation.</p>\n"}]
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