The web server is a great place to cache because it is usually under your complete control. However, it's not really part of network performance, apart from generating the correct headers. There can be other great performance benefits with server-side caching in terms of improving the speed to generate pages, but we will cover these in later chapters.
If you use the traditional .NET Framework on Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) web server, then you can use output caching from within your application. This will take care of setting the correct headers and sending 304 (Not Modified) responses to browser requests. It will also cache the output on the server in memory, on disk or using Memcached/Redis. You can add attributes ...
