MVolo's Blog : performance

Analyzing server power consumption and costs

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Leverage the Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Make your next IIS 7.0 web server a lean one

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:04:00 GMT

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?...(read more)

WCAT 6.3 update for "NULL Controller Specified" issue

mvolo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:25:00 GMT

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.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

WCAT 6.3 web performance and scalability test tool released

mvolo — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:05:00 GMT

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.NET.

The PHP / FastCGI Technical Preview is Live!

mvolo — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:02:00 GMT

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.