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How to speed up your most popular web page
What's your most popular web page?
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Tricking Rapid Fail Protection
If an attacker or a piece of poorly written code can crash an IIS worker process you might face a Denial-of-Service condition. IIS would spawn up a new worker process which crashes again as soon as it executes the vulnerable code. Spawning up processes is a pretty expensive operation on Windows and constantly trying to start new worker processes might bring your web server to a halt. And that's why the Rapid Fail Protection feature was introduced in IIS6.