Web.config on load balanced servers

[Tim Barton]

Hi,
I'm building an application that will probably sit on some load balanced
servers at some point and I'm concerned about keeping configuration settings
in the web.config file. Is there a tried and tested method of holding config
information in static classes or in the cache that someone could point me
to?

Cheers,
Tim.

 

[Brock Allen]

If you want a single location for configuration data, consider the database.
But then of course you have a bootstrapping problem of how to tell each server
what database to connect to. At some point, each server needs to be informed
where to go look for your configuration data.

 

[Tim Barton]

Thanks for that. What I was really thinking about was to use a database for
the settings but to load them to memory at app start. They would then sit in
a static class or the system cache for fast retrieval. Then when the config
changes the in memory stuff is re-populated with the new data. When this is
running across several machines is there a way of keeping the data
consistent on them all?

Cheers,
Tim.