My posts tagged with "performance"(RSS)

Analyzing server power consumption and costs

For many data centers, the cost of powering servers has become a top budget item. The first step to reducing power costs lies in understanding the power characteristics of your server equipment and workloads. We started with a simple power meter and a...

Leverage the Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

IIS 7.0 improves on the already solid performance of its predecessor in quite a few places. But the real power lies in the new capabilities IIS 7.0 provides that can significantly improve performance, scalability, and reduce operational costs of running...

Make your next IIS 7.0 web server a lean one

Among IT circles, IIS 7.0’s modularity is definitely one of its most welcomed traits. It promises a significantly reduced surface area, lightweight management overhead, and better performance. Ever wonder how far you can go with modularizing IIS 7.0?...

WCAT 6.3 update for "NULL Controller Specified" issue

The updated WCAT 6.3 build is now available to download that fixes the "NULL Controller Specified" issue that some people have been reporting. More info and download links at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/01/24/Updated-WCAT-6.3-released...

WCAT 6.3 web performance and scalability test tool released

The NT Performance team just publically released the latest version of WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool), the web performance test tool that the IIS team and NT Performance team use to conduct internal performance and scalability testing of IIS and ASP...

The PHP / FastCGI Technical Preview is Live!

After several weeks of silence on this topic, and lots of hard work, we just released the FastCGI Techical Preview for IIS 5.x / IIS 6 / IIS7! Read more on my blog here: http://mvolo.com/2006/10/31/the-php--fastcgi-technical-preview-is-live.aspx .

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