Our first guide in the IIS Expert guides series is out.
This one is about the right ways to restart IIS websites, and the production impacts of the different ways customers do it.
We also discuss in detail WHEN you should restart IIS or recycle your application pool, and when you shouldn’t … and the better alternatives to restarting.
Improving IIS application pool availability
This post is part 1 of our upcoming series on how to configure IIS for maximum availability. The next guide will touch on how to configure your sites for 100% warm operation, with zero startup delays. We also have a tool called ConfigureWarmup that can do this for you automatically, and can even test your warmup performance. Stay tuned for these coming in the next two weeks.
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