At Monitis, we want your IIS maintenance and IIS monitoring to run smoothly. We are posting articles on IIS server maintenance – you can read the first article on application based IIS server performance tips and the second article on software based IIS server performace tips if you missed them. In our third article on Microsoft IIS server performance tips, we look at feature based adjustments you can make to improve IIS performance.

Adding some features in the server helps optimize the IIS7 server. Feature based tuning guidelines include putting scripts toward the end and stylesheets on top of the document, reducing DNS lookup, and other methods.

At Monitis, we want your IIS monitoring and IIS management to go as smoothly as possible.  Our goal is to provide high uptime for your IIS web server, and to that end, we are providing a series of tips to keep your Microsoft IIS server at its optimal performance.

In the second of our three-part series on Microsoft IIS server tips, we will cover software based IIS performance tips that will keep your IIS web server running at its peak.  If you missed our first article, you can find it here – Top 8 Application-Based IIS Server Performance Tips. This first article includes an introduction to IIS and the top eight tips for application based IIS optimization.

The following are our top four software-based tips that improve IIS performance:

In previous posts, we already learned how to access Performance Counters metrics, and How to Monitor Windows Servers with VBScript, WMI and Monitis.  But, in this article, we will put everything together and create a Monits page with the most important parameters for monitoring an IIS Server in production.