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XCache combines dynamic content caching technology with content delivery network (CDN) support options, file compression and a whole lot of manageability features to help e-businesses deliver superior web site performance and reliability. You'll appreciate the administrative ease, your
visitors will appreciate increased page delivery speed.
XCompress works by compressing outgoing text between the Web server and the client. Page response times may improve by a factor of three or more while overall bandwidth use can drop by two thirds or more.
XCompress runs on Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 and is tightly integrated with Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) with MMC and COM interfaces.
XTune 2.0 is the most powerful tuning application for IIS 4 or IIS 5 ever
conceived. Indispensable to the enterprise and straightforward, this web
tuning tool allows you to configure hidden operating system, network, Active
Server Pages and Internet Information Server settings for better
performance, without any additional hardware or software.
This version scans your system more deeply, offering more
performance-enhancing recommendations and greater insight into your web architecture. The Performance Wizard guides and teaches you throughout the complete tuning process, so you can learn while making your box run better than ever.
Performance monitoring helps organizations identify performance bottlenecks. The problem is that with so many performance numbers available, how do you know which ones to watch? This article helps you identify which are the critical performance counters in a SharePoint Portal Server environment and explains how to monitor them. By monitoring performance regularly, organizations can recognize performance trends as they develop and prevent problems before they get out of hand. [Read This Article][Top]
There is broad-reaching debate about remoting, Web services, Enterprise Services, and DCOM. In short, it is a debate about the best technology to use when implementing client/server communication in .NET. Rocky Lhotka shares his thoughts on the issue while offering clear explanations of basic application architecture terminology. [Read This Article][Top]
This article examines some of the new and exciting caching features in ASP.NET 2.0 and shows how to implement them in Web applications. [Read This Article][Top]
When it came time to find a technology for its massive upgrade, Match.com chose .NET. Has the online dating service's partnership with Microsoft been as successful as the relationships it has established for many of its millions of members? Read on ... [Read This Article][Top]
Longtime 15Seconds discussion list member Tore Bostrup offers valuable advice on designing databases and applications for efficient querying. [Read This Article][Top]
Narayan Veeramani shows how ASP.NET developers can improve application
performance by caching data stored in an Oracle database and keeping
the cached data in sync with the data in the Oracle database. [Read This Article][Top]
Ever developed a Web application that requires extensive processing? Ever had long running Web pages that often time out in the browser? Greg Huber reveals a simple technique that uses Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) and the System.Messaging framework to handle long running Web processes. [Read This Article][Top]
As IT professionals try to reduce the cost of operating their Web sites, they should consider reducing the amount of bandwidth usage. Learn how to successfully compress your HTML output and save money on your monthly bandwidth. [Read This Article][Top]
Maintaining a large Web farm is both costly and unnecessary. Learn how to reduce your Web farm to just two servers in this controversial article by Wayne Berry. [Read This Article][Top]
Members of the 15 Seconds discussion list put together a couple of scripts to benchmark methods for removing duplicate items in a string list. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn what types of data exchanges are targets for optimization and the benefits and disadvantages of using persistence with the Application object. [Read This Article][Top]
Members of the 15Seconds ASP discussion list share their experiences on whether to use multiple Response.Writes or string concatenation for better performance. [Read This Article][Top]
Populating select boxes with a user's previous selections can prove seriously resource intensive. Here's a simple method that takes advantage of the DOM and a recordset to reduce the server-side processing and move the brunt of the work to the client. [Read This Article][Top]
Paging is basically querying a database and presenting a page full of the query's results. In ASP and SQL Server programming, there are three approaches to paging. This article compares the approaches and explains why the third is the most efficient when dealing with very large sets of data. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn how to overcome the limitations of WAST, Microsoft's Web Application Stress Tool, and retrieve dynamic variables from your ASP pages with the new Visual Studio.NET load-testing tool. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn how to overcome the limitations of WAST, Microsoft's Web Application Stress Tool, and retrieve dynamic variables from your ASP pages with the new Visual Studio.NET load-testing tool. [Read This Article][Top]
Active Server Pages 3.0 offers two new methods to the Server object: Transfer and Execute . However, as Paul Litwin explains, there will be times when it's better to use good old Response.Redirect. [Read This Article][Top]
In this comparison of ASP, VB, and C++ database access for Internet applications, Drew Seale
examines whether components are all they are cracked up to be. The results are surprising! [Read This Article][Top]
This article covers three ways to cache your dynamic Web site written
in ASPs, including Microsoft Acceleration Server, Microsoft's ASP+, and Post Point Software's XCache, and offer the pros and cons of
using each product. [Read This Article][Top]
Everyone seems to want the speed-to-market that Windows NT can provide when developing a Web site, but too many people have heard about NT's track record of stability and stability troubles. This paper attempts to prove NT can be stable and reliable, and that there are many good reasons to
consider NT when building your site. [Read This Article][Top]
Srinivasa Sivakumar offers lengthy tips and sample code for improving ASP application performance. Keys to improving HTML page performance reach beyond the usual client hardware/bandwidth issues and into 10 detailed suggestions about how to handle images, frames, and redundant tags. Response-time problems are carved into individual discussions about ASP page performance, network bandwidth, and database issues. He offers twofold examples offering both the "slower" code and the much-preferred "faster" code. [Read This Article][Top]
This article by Jan Hein de Waal Malefijt and Bart van Langen describes how to creating a Active Server Page caching system in JavaScript and SQL Insight. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is a reprint of chapter 16, by Nelson Howell , in a new book called 'Using Microsoft Internet Information Server 4' from Que Education & Training (ISBN 0789712636) due for publication in early March 1998. This chapter covers understanding and planning for server-side loading with the Internet Information Server version 4.0. Including determining load using performance monitor, using event viewer to discover errors, using TCP/IP troubleshooting utilities, configuring ODBC loads and understanding IIS logging. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is a reprint of chapter 15, by Nelson Howell , in a new book called 'Using Microsoft Internet Information Server 4' from Que Education & Training (ISBN 0789712636) due for publication in early March 1998. The chapter covers performance tuning of the Internet Information Server version 4.0. Including: What is performance, building web sites for speed, and the performance monitor. [Read This Article][Top]
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We compress images routinely, why not HTML? Why indeed. Peter Cranstone,
who has devoted the last 10 years of his life to compression, shows how
you can speed up your site with HTTP compression. [Read The Article]
Don't know whether to develop your application for Windows or Unix? San
Jose-based Mainsoft wants to make the decision easy: Do them both. [Read The Article]
This document discusses an approach to tuning the performance of your Web servers. It also addresses why performance tuning is important and discusses hardware, software, and testing issues involved in tuning your IIS 5.0 Web servers. Finally, it includes a short discussion of tools you can use to monitor and test server performance. [Read The Article]
As the complexity of server-side processing increases, and as the numbers of clients accessing your web site increase, optimizing your server’s performance will become a priority. In the first part of today’s article, Scott Allen investigates the utility of Microsoft’s Web Application Stress Tool in measuring server performance. In the second half of the article, Benoy Jose investigates one relatively straightforward way in which site performance could be improved. His solution depends on a technique for generating static HTML pages on the server, thus saving excessive calls to a database. [Read The Article]
Perf too slow? Scaling issues? These are the questions that J.D. Meier ran through during a code review to find the bottlenecks and buy more perf. The article is broken down by different application layers (improving script performance, improving component performance, improving data access performance) [Read The Article]
As web applications continue increasing in scope their complexity will continue increasing as well. This complexity requires developers to give more consideration to the design of their components. In this article James Brannan shows how to make developing these components easier. The key to developing a robust, multi-tiered IIS component using Visual Basic is starting on a firm foundation, with an architectural plan in hand. In this tutorial, we will build our application by separating our classes - hence code - into three logical layers using Visual Modeler (VM), which uses a subset of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). We'll set up our component to take this separation one step further using XSL templates. [Read The Article]
This article, by Charles Havranek, creator of ASP2DLL, discusses the performance differences between raw ASP and compiled COM objects. He then discusses how ASP2DLL can be used to create compiled versions of ASP pages for enhanced performance! [Read The Article]
n this first of a two article series, Wayne Plourde presents some performance test results to help developers decide if a particular practice is not only worthwhile for future projects, but whether they should consider updating older projects as well. [Read The Article]
This article addresses scalability and performance testing using the Web
Application Stress Tool (WAS) ... formerly known as Homer. It's a complete
walk through so folks can get up and running quickly. [Read The Article]
This document provides suggestions and guidelines for improving the performance of your MDAC application. The suggestions offered here constitute good coding practice. Performance might not noticeably improve unless accessing data is a significant part of your application processing. [Read The Article]
There are many different ways of sending a delimited text file to SQL Server. Geoff Pennington compares and contrasts five of the best. [Read This Article]
While Microsoft use Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) more or less "out of the box," Microsoft makes improvements to their site with some "tweaks" to the settings, which are listed and explained in this paper. [Read The Article]
The Web Workshop's Server Performance and Scalability Killers article, by George V. Reilly, should be the ASP developer's bible when creating applications. Take special note of the Ten Commandments of Killing Server Performance. In this section, George notes the things you can do to hamper the performance and scalability of your code. These commandments are meant to be broken in order to improve performance and scalability. [Read the Article]
Nancy Winnick Cluts from Microsoft SiteBuilder Network discusses how to use the free Microsoft Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) to stress test your web site. [Read This Article]
This article describes how to optimize your Active Server
Pages' performance. It deals with such topics as responsible Session
usage, and various database connection techniques which can be employed to
quicken your query time. [Read This Article]
A significant factor in improving the performance capacity and response time on microsoft.com was tuning the Microsoft® Internet Information Server (IIS) thread pool and the ASP request queue. After tuning, hits increased by about 20 million the following week, most likely due to better response time and increased capacity, which yielded a better user experience. This papers describes what you can do to improve IIS performance on your own site. [Read This Article]
