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purity.net for spam filtering

posted on 17 July 2009 in Hosting General

I just want to give a shout out to purity.net for spam filtering. They make server-wide filtering a breeze by delegating the whole process on their own servers (just point MX records to their server)...more info>>>

Redirecting non-www domain to www domain

posted on 2 September 2008 in IIS

If you want people to be redirected to http://www.yourdomain.com/ when they enter http://yourdomain.com, here's how to do it in IIS:- 1. Go to IIS on the server and right click / select propert...more info>>>

New IIS7 Releases: URL Rewrite, Application Routing and Load Balancing, and PowerShell Cmd-lets

posted on 24 July 2008 in Best of the Web

In last a few weeks, the IIS team has released 3 IIS extensions updates: · URL Rewrite Module CTP1 · Application Request Routing CTP1 · PowerShell Provider CTP2 Full Art...more info>>>

How to Migrate from IIS 6 to IIS 7

posted on 23 July 2008 in Best of the Web

With so many cool new capabilities in IIS7, and even more new features coming out all the time, it's no wonder you want to move to IIS7.  But you work for The Man, and everyone k...more info>>>

How to identify which websites are using up the CPU

posted on 9 June 2008 in IIS

One of the biggest headaches with IIS is trying to identify which websites are the most expensive CPU-usage wise. You can do performance monitoring but all you get is each worker process (for each ap...more info>>>

4 problems with large-scale shared hosting

posted on 1 February 2008 in Hosting General

1. Unreliable serviceWhen sharing a server with 500+ other websites (typical for large-scale shared hosting), you are at the mercy of all those other websites. Dodgy coding on just one of those sites...more info>>>

Simple example of how to cache data

posted on 11 January 2008 in Coding

You will want to cache parts of your website that are costly to CPU usage. For example, you might have an e-commerce website that lists its product categories down the left-hand side of every page. ...more info>>>

11 tips on reducing CPU usage on your Windows server

posted on 8 January 2008 in Hosting General

This is far from an exhaustive list, but it should act as a good "to do" list when checking over your websites / server. Websites1. Cache everything that can be cached. This was disc...more info>>>

Server Side Image Manipulation with Graphics Mill

posted on 3 January 2008 in Hosting General

This will sound like a sponsor article, but it's really just a straight-up recommendation. For anything to do with image manipulation, if you're programming in ASP or ASP.NET, Graphics Mill is t...more info>>>

Upload / download limits and the IIS Metabase File

posted on 30 December 2007 in IIS

Setting upload limitIf you are hosting on a Windows platform, you can alter the size limit for uploaded files via the metabase file. This is particularly useful when setting up a new server, since th...more info>>>

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