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Today IIS team has published a servicing release of Web Farm Framework 2 . This release contains fixes for the bugs reported in version 2.0 that was published in January this year. The following bugs have been fixed in this release: If a server was excluded from load balancing because of an error or if it was temporary unavailable then it required administrator to manually add it back. With this release the Web Farm Service will attempt to auto-repair unavailable servers and add them back to load...( read more ) Read More...
A month ago I have stopped using Google Analytics for my site and instead gave a try to Piwik – an open source, PHP/MySQL based real time web analytics application. Since then it has been working well for my site and overall to me it looks like a better alternative to Google Analytics. Here are the things that I like: Real Time Visitor Log – this is a very cool feature as it shows in real time who is on your site, where they came from and what they do: Hourly Visits Chart – shows number of visits...( read more ) Read More...
IIS team has recently released a Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta . The goal of the Web Farm Framework is to enable easy provisioning, deployment and managing of web farms. This blog post provides an example of what Web Farm Framework can do and how it can simplify the Web Farm management tasks. To demonstrate the capabilities of the tool, we will create a simple web farm that looks as on the following diagram: The load balancer will be using the Application Request Routing for IIS 7 and will also act...( read more ) Read More...
With the addition of .NET Framework to Server Core in Windows Server 2008 R2 the Server Core installation option became even more appealing for those who want to use a very low footprint server for hosting their applications. Availability of .NET framework provides the following great benefits: ASP.NET support – you can now use Server Core to host your ASP.NET applications. IIS Remote Management – Server Core does not provide any user interface other than command line. But if you prefer to use IIS...( read more ) Read More...
Today IIS team has released the Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS 7.0 - Beta. The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through Brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be...( read more ) Read More...
ASP.NET Web Forms extensively use postback mechanism in order to maintain the state of the server-side controls on the web page. This makes it somewhat tricky to perform URL rewriting for ASP.NET pages. When a server side form control is added to the web page, ASP.NET will render the response with HTML <form> tag that contains an action attribute pointing back to the page where the form control is. This means that if URL rewriting was used for that page, the action attribute will point back...( read more ) Read More...
The big benefit of IIS 7 integrated request processing pipeline is the fact that all the nice and useful ASP.NET features can be used for any type of content on your web site; not just for ASP.NET-specific content. For example, ASP.NET SQL-based membership can be used to protect static files and folders. Also, ASP.NET extensibility API’s, such as IHttpHandler and IHttpModule can be used to add custom modules and handlers that would be executed even for non-ASP.NET content. IIS 6 did not have...( read more ) Read More...
After almost 5 years at the company, I am both sad and excited to say that I’ll be leaving the IIS team and Microsoft at the end of this week. I’ve spent the past 4 years living and breathing IIS 7.0, from its inception, to the Vista release, and the final debut in Windows Server 2008. During most of this time, I was heads down in designing and driving the development of the product, with little opportunity to see the impact it will have in the outside world. Now that IIS 7.0 is ready, I feel it’s the right time to shift perspectives, and focus on leveraging it to make that impact. The more I learn about the problems customers solve in the wild, the more I realize how much work there still is to truly “unleash the potential” of the web server (thankfully, this is exactly what we wanted to enable through the end-to-end extensibility architecture of IIS 7.0). So, I will be leaving to help customers make the most of IIS 7.0, and start a few projects around web server performance, shared hosting...
After 5 years in development, IIS 7.0 is finished ! Personally, it is hard to believe that it is over. I remember joining the IIS 7.0 team over 4 years ago, when the project was in its infancy, to drive the design of the web server engine. I remember getting in the room with all of the senior IIS 7.0 developers, with a spec of how the web server pipeline was going to work … feeling like I was about to be eaten alive :) More reflections at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/02/28/IIS-7.0-ships_3A00_-a-trip-down-memory-lane.aspx . Read More...
After several weeks of move-related outages, mvolo.com is back online at its new home at MaximumASP. The server ran Windows Server 2008 beta 3 for 5+ months in my friend's garage without a single reboot, while the only access I had to it was through the blog's publishing interface. The new specs are orders of magnitude better than what I had before, so I am pretty excited to see the improvements in responsiveness. Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/09/23/Mvolo.com-is-back_2100_.aspx . Read More...
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