We have an IIS7.5 farm using shared config which is stored on a central file server (A NAS appliance that i believe runs Samba under the hood). This started out pretty small 2 servers, less than 10% cpu, and just 1 site. Over time, we've migrated more and more apps to this newer farm from our IIS6...

Hi all, This is my first post and i've tried searching for it but the search functionality just doesn't seem to work. =\ So here it is: I've been reading up on IIS7 running ASP.NET apps for good reason. Reasons are to increase reliability as well as performance. The particular ASP application...

Hello, I am planning to rent a new server that has four cores (11ghz)/4GB RAM. The other option is to rent a server with multi-processor and multi-cores (18ghz)/8GB RAM. Both would run Windows Server 2008 Web edition (x64 bit). I will be running web-sites written in ASP.net and some other sites running...

I'm in the process of building a new web server for our external website. I've built the server as a Windows 2008 Server - Standard Edition and enabled the Web Server Role. We've created a new site and loaded our web pages from our newly developed website. Everything works fine when we access...

Hi, I've been beating myself to a pulp trying to determine why web sites on my local machine take forever to load. I installed IIS on my Vista Ultimate machine w/o any errors and all development web sites (.net 1.1 & .net 2.0) work properly. But it takes a few minutes for a page to load in any...

If you haven't seen this yet, check it out - today we released the FastCGI Technical Preview intended to significantly improve the performance of CGI applications like PHP. It is available for IIS 5.x, IIS 6, and IIS7! At the same time, we announced our collaboration with Zend, the creators of PHP...