Asp.Net View State persisted?

Question

Is it a good idea to persist all ViewStates of the Intranet in a Memcached or directly in file on the server like this article show?

I usually see it directly in pages but a lot of our pages (Intranet website for clients) have huge DataGrid (can make the page up to 2 megs).

Is it a good way to have smaller page? Any problem that you can see?

Answer 1

This is the ideal way I've found is to use the PageStatePersister:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/011707-1.aspx

The only thing to consider is history size. I've gone with 20 and never have performance issues.