we have a website that uses nhibernate and 2nd level cache. We are having a debate as one person wants to turn off the second level cache as we are moving to a multi webserver environment (with a load balancer in front).
One argument is to get rid of the second level cache and focus on optimizing and tuning the Db. the other argument is to roll out a distributed cache as the second level cache.
I am curious to hear folks pro and con here of DB tuning versus distributed cache (factoring in effort involved, cost, complexity, etc)