Contents tagged with Performance
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Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…
Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new IIS7 Extension, the list of new features just gets bigger and bigger. A few months ago I realized we didn’t have the top list of features written up anywhere, and so we started the process of distilling down the list to the top 10. We almost made it! We ended up with the top 12 reasons you should get IIS7 today. Check them out here:
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IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for Download
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Real World Performance Data on IIS7
Interested in knowing what kind of performance gains you can expect from IIS7? The Microsoft.com operations folks have put together a great summary of their real-world performance data. The short story is: IIS7 servers handle 31% more requests per second than their IIS6 peers, at a slightly higher CPU rate. For all the gory details, read the Microsoft.com blog!
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Microsoft Announces Interoperability Improvements for PHP and Microsoft technologies
Last year at ZendCon 2006, I was invited to be a part of the Microsoft and Zend announcement initiating technical collaboration with the PHP community to significantly enhance the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has delivered a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI Extension which enables IIS to much more effectively host PHP applications.
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Free IIS7 Online Training
A few months ago the IIS team did a quick tour of Europe, speaking in various cities and countries in an all-day IIS conference specifically geared toward training people on IIS7. Luckily, the good people of Poland decided to record and publish the training for everyone to use. Check out the sessions below to watch Brett Hill and Isaac Roybal present IIS7. Here is a list of all the sessions: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/result_search.aspx?event=69&x=13&y=2
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IIS7 Output Caching for Dynamic Content - Speed Up Your ASP and PHP Applications
IIS7 has a new output cache feature that can cache dynamic content (output from your ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP or other dynamic pages) in memory. This can yield enormous performance improvements since it means that the script used to generate that dynamic output doesn't need to run for each request. The cache is "smart" enough to vary the output cached based on query string values as well as HTTP headers sent from the client to the server. The cache is also integrated with the http.sys kernel mode driver, enabling blazing fast performance.