Configuring IIS 7.0 for Shared Hosting

Author: Walter Oliver

Published on December 01, 2007 by iisteam

Updated on December 01, 2007 by iisteam

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The following articles contain the recommended IIS 7.0 settings to help ensure security and performance in a shared hosting environment.

See also PowerShell Script to configure each of these settings

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32-bit Mode Worker Processes

One of the performance benefits of the x64 platform is that it increases virtual address space, making more memory available. We recommend that you configure IIS to use a 32-bit worker processes on 64-bit Windows. Not only its compatibility better than the ...

Application Pool Identity as Anonymous User

In prior versions of IIS, the anonymous user allowed classic ASP content to be isolated by using a different anonymous user for each site. Isolation was accomplished by preventing ASP scripts from reverting back to the process identity, called the "impersonation ...

Default Documents

The default document is for client requests to a Web site that do not specify a document name, such as www.microsoft.com. The default document specifies what file to serve. You can configure multiple default documents for a Web site, but there is a performance ...

HTTP Response Cache

The IIS 7.0 output cache is a new feature that makes it possible to cache entire responses in memory, even from dynamic content. Unlike existing caches in IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 has a “smart” cache, which lets site owners and developers configure the output cache ...

dynamicIdleThreshold

Introduction When Windows Server® 2008 starts paging heavily (this could be at 1.5x ram), the response time of HTTP requests goes down. This is particularly common in shared hosting scenarios. A new feature in IIS 7.0 allows page file usage (total commit) ...

Dynamic Compression

Dynamic compression can save a significant amount of bandwidth with a tradeoff in using extra CPU. If bandwidth savings are more important than additional CPU, and the server is not currently bound by CPU, enable dynamic compression. The amount of CPU used ...

Delegated Administration

The IIS 7.0 administrative user interface, called the IIS Manager, offers a new, more efficient tool for managing the Web server. It provides support for IIS and ASP.NET configuration settings. It also lets those who host or administer Web sites delegate administrative ...

Delegating errorMode in httpErrors

There are cases when a hoster may need to delegate to its customers specific settings in the “applicationhost.config” file without delegating the entire section, the errorMode settingin the httpErrors section is one of them, another one is the scriptErrorSentToBrowser ...

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