Session and Cookie management in Laravel

I guess file driver gives us the advantages over

• low latency
• security and
• file size (as user's machine has only 4kb)

But still if we are talking about an application that has a potential to get high number of users do you think it is a good option. I mean the file capacity of session folder at the server end can grow exponentially.

OIC... there is a garbage collection in laravel and session files created by Laravel get cleaned up automatically. But i still like to weigh your thoughts on this.. please contribute.

I think you'd have to have a pretty terrible hosting solution in place to be concerned about running out of storage space from session files.. :)

If you are planning to support very high user capacity, then you're also likely to need to scale horizontally (multiple web heads, etc) If that's the case, something like a redis or memcache server that will maintain sessions across all web heads would be wise. But really, until you get beyond one web server, anything other than file or database session storage is probably not really worth time worrying about.