Hello all, My company is running a cluster of 2 nodes with IIS7. We're hosting about 4000 sites on it and it performs fine. A 3rd machine does the provisioning using microsoft.web.administration. It creates, deletes, stops and starts sites and application pools, et cetera. With the amount of sites...

Starting from scratch and looking for some advice from the pros. I need to build out a high-performance web server farm starting with two or three nodes using Windows 2008, IIS7 and hardware loadbalancers. I'm a little overwhelmed with all the new features of IIS7 and Windows 2008 (i.e., shared config...

What is the best way to optimize the performance of a high traffic website running on IIS 7 with a SQL Server backend? Are there any best practices in terms of what servers to buy, and what configuration tools to use? How can the performance be benchmarked? What are the best tools to use? Has anyone...

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...