ASP.NET provides In-Process and Out-of-Process state management. In-Process stores the session in memory on the web server. This requires the "sticky-server" (or no load-balancing) so that the user is always reconnected to the same web server. Out-of-Process Session state management stores data in an external data source. The external data source may be either a SQL Server or a State Server service. Out-of-Process state management requires that all objects stored in session are serializable.