Addressing scalability ,performance in a .net web application

Question

I\'m working on a .net portal which would be having lots of concurrent users. so scalability,performance need to be addressed in the design and architecture. We plan to use load

Answer 1

Do you really need an app server? Just how big are you talking exactly? For example Stackoverflow.com has ~50k uniques a day and doesn't have an app server so I assume you are talking much bigger than that? Most performance bottle necks come down to database issues so I would concentrate on that.