>>Sounds like you need the extra processes then. Long term it might well be worth looking to make some of the long running hits async - but that would depend on why they take so long...
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>We are talking about regular site hits. Thus, we are under the SLA terms. Long processes are covered by a robot. Our average hit is very good but once you reach 300,000 hits a day towards a million, we need a little bit more help from IIS.
Any reason why you could not run the 'robot' asynchronously ?
>>You're right, IIS8 is only for W2012 and W8. I'm behind the curve on this :-{
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>Yes, this is what I have on my Windows 8.1. It is not that much different from IIS 7. So, it would have been interested to have that one. However, there was no justification to move to Windows Server 2012 as this one is not recommended for production and most enterprises are simply skipping that one. So, most of the production environments are presently using Windows Server 2008.
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>>BTW, off topic a bit, I found this a good overview of IIS architecture (3 parts) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haYiSvvDNYQ>
>I have taken a look at it and it seems very interesting. I will have to go over all that this week.
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>Thanks
