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Wed, Dec 10 2008 8:39

99.99% available ASP.NET and SQL Server SaaS Production Architecture

You have a hot ASP.NET+SQL Server product, growing at thousand users per day and you have hit the limit of your own garage hosting capability. Now that you have enough VC money in your pocket, you are planning to go out and host on some real hosting facility...
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Mon, Oct 6 2008 7:59

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and...
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Sat, Oct 4 2008 11:05

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6.0

Every time I create an IIS website, I do some steps, which I consider as best practice for creating any IIS website for better performance, maintainability, and scalability. Here' re the things I do: Create a separate application pool for each web...
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Mon, Jun 30 2008 9:12

Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance problems

There are several problems with ASP.NET MVC application when deployed on IIS 6.0: Extensionless URLs give 404 unless some URL Rewrite module is used or wildcard mapping is enabled IIS 6.0 built-in compression does not work for dynamic requests. As a result...
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Mon, Apr 7 2008 14:17

Reduce website download time by heavily compressing PNG and JPEG

PNG and JPEG are two most popular formats for web graphics. JPEG is used for photographs, screenshots and backgrounds where PNG is used for all other graphics need including cliparts, buttons, headers, footers, borders and so on. As a result, these two...
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Wed, Jan 30 2008 15:47

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster....
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Sun, Jan 13 2008 20:23

My first book - Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

My first book " Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 " from O'Reilly is published and available in the stores. This book explains in detail the architecture design, development, test, deployment, performance and scalability challenges...
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Thu, Nov 29 2007 16:21

Making best use of cache for high performance website

Use URLs consistently Browsers cache content based on the URL. When URL changes, browser fetches a new version from origin server. URL can be changed by changing the query string parameters. For example, “/default.aspx” is cached on the browser. If you...
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Tue, Oct 2 2007 18:26

10 cool web development related articles in 2007

Here's a list of 10 cool ASP.NET, AJAX and web development related articles and blog posts that I have written this year that you might want to take a look: 13 disasters for production website and their solutions Talks about 13 production disasters...
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Wed, Sep 19 2007 8:46

A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in performance degradation

If you are using SQL Sever Server standard edition 64 bit on a Windows 2003 64bit, you will frequently encounter this problem where SQL Server says: A significant part of sql server process memory has been paged out. This may result in performance degradation...
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Mon, Jan 1 2007 11:21

What to do when you kill your database with your own hand

Couple of months ago, we had an interesting day. It was a bright summer morning. We were all in the office doing our regular work. Developers writing codes, QA testing the site. We were all happy and smiling as there was no major bug. Some were drinking...
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Mon, Aug 28 2006 7:53

Cost effective, failsafe, 2 server load balanced web & DB servers

We were very poor when we first started Pageflakes so we needed a really cheap but fully reliable deployment configuration. The requirement was: Fail safe. If a server goes down, another one can take over without users noticing Database must be mirrored...
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