Performance

I find myself searching for this information over and over again for each web site I develop, so I guess I must blog this topic to remember it from now on. IIS 7 has a very powerful caching framework, but some of the defaults are in my opinion not very well thought for modern web applications. For example: by default Javascript files are not compressed with GZIP, and cache location for static content is not public by default. So, if you use T4MVC, SquishtIt, or any other means to link to your static files with a timestamp then you might want to use settings along these lines: ...

In the project I recently worked for our solution’s web interface froze every now and then. This problem had been going on for a while, but every time the problem went away by itself without any intervention. No problem, until the issue escalated even to developer workstations, making them slow. Investigation The problem was easily pinpointed to be at the service layer (IIS WAS hosted). Investigation was started by adding more application pools, and immediately the responsiveness of the service increased. The main reason being that worker processes were restarted, but we did not know it then. Gladly we knew that this was not a fix, just a temporary cure, there was still something badly wrong. ...