Entries categorized 'IIS' ↓
Accessorize your Denial of Service or SQL Injection Attack
I was reading some posts on Twitter the past couple days and noticed some Tweets from Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman regarding an attack on their web servers for their blogs which caused a large spike in traffic. They determined it was some type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack . I decided to check out my own server which I host this site and to my surprise, the same thing had been happening to me all day with an increase in traffic 10x. I reviewed my server logs and saw some really...
Read more : No Comments : 08.11.08
Use Host-Header Routing to Host Multiple IIS Web Sites
I have been working with Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) since very early on and sometimes take for granted some nice features in the current (pre-IIS7) versions. Much of my work is from the development side of things, creating ASP.NET web sites and web services. I do get involved in the management of those IIS servers from time-to-time. One issue that we often face is how to host multiple web sites on the same IIS server. There are three approaches that work, they are: 1. Separate IP...
Read more : 1 Comment : 10.24.07
Configuring IIS 6 and ASP.NET to work without a Windows Domain
I recently setup and configured some new web servers for the new web application being rolled out. The application is an ASP.NET 2.0 application running on IIS6 and Windows 2003. Our existing application this new application will replace runs in IIS5 and Windows 2000. The real differentiator is the legacy application is running on a Windows domain and our new application will not. This decision was made to remove the domain, domain management and the overhead incurred by having a domain in our web...
Read more : 6 Comments : 07.18.06
