Tag Archive: web platform installer

Bit Rate Throttling? – HELL YEAH!

Posted Oct.15, 2010 under IIS server, News, Servers

Fact number one: If you have a streaming server, you must install this extension!

Great, now that we’ve got this fact covered, we can move on.

IIS site says:

Bit Rate Throttling, an IIS Media Services extension, saves money on network costs by metering the download speed of media and data files. For media, Bit Rate Throttling accomplishes this by automatically detecting the encoded bit rates of 11 common media formats, such as Windows Media Video (WMV), Flash Video (FLV), and MPEG 4 (MP4), and then throttling the response to the client. For any other file or MIME type, Bit Rate Throttling allows administrators to configure custom throttling rules.

Now, lets explain the same thing in a bit simpler way.

If you have a server which streams any kind of media files, Im sure you have noticed extremely high bandwidht usage on that machine. In my experience, over 40% of the bandwidth is wasted! WAIT! WHY, HOW?

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Cook!? Can you warm up my application? NO! I cannot!:D

Posted Oct.13, 2010 under IIS server, Servers, Windows and Powershell

In the beginning, some c/p from IIS site:

IIS Application Warm-Up for IIS 7.5 enables IT Professionals to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, IT Professionals can ensure their Web sites are responsive at all times even if their Web sites use a custom request pipeline or if the Application Pool is recycled.

Now, ME!

At first glimse you can say : “WOW” this extension rocks!!! I dont have to wait for my application to compile! My site will load much much faster!

And, imagine, you would be completely RIGHT! This is a great extension, but ( yeah, there’s a but ), I would NEVER install this extension on a shared hosting server! Why you ask?

Biggest reason is the WASTE of resources!

By preloading some site that has 5-10 unique visitors/day ( yes there are sites like that ), you are efectively wasting resources on the server. Imagine what would happen if you had around 500-600 applications on the server, all preloaded? How much RAM would the machine need to have to keep all those applications preloaded? I guess the answer is : A LOT!

So, conclusion, when to use IIS Application Warm-Up?

Use it on your own machine! When you have a dedicated machine just for 1-2 websites.  You, and your users will benefit from preloaded applications. Everything will open more faster!

If you have a shared hosting machine, MY reccomendation is to NOT use the IIS Application Warm-Up extension!

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Setuping a server for web hosting – part 4: Installing PHP

Posted Apr.14, 2010 under IIS server, Servers, Windows and Powershell

Hello after a very long pause :) . Continuing the “Setuping a server for web hosting” series with the new smashing video of how to install PHP on your machine! AWESOME right? :)

In the very begining of the post, lets learn what PHP is exactly.

So, Wikipedia says ( and I add that I agree with her :) :

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. As a general-purpose programming language, PHP code is processed by an interpreter application in command-line mode performing desired operating system operations and producing program output on its standard output channel. It may also function as a graphical application. PHP is available as a processor for most modern web servers and as standalone interpreter on most operating systems and computing platforms.
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Setuping a server for web hosting – part 2: Installing SQL 2008 Express

Posted Oct.24, 2009 under Windows and Powershell

Hello there…

In order to  install SQL 2008 Express, we have to download it first . Fire up your favorite browser and point it to http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ . After that, find the box with the SQL 2008 Express, and click download.

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On the next step you have the option to register with Microsoft or download the software without registration.  I will choose the “no registration part”.

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In the new window, choose the version you would like to install. Personally, I will choose “Runtime with advanced services“. By clicking on install, Microsoft will ask to install the Microsoft Web Platform installer. If you dont have it installed, click on the picture to install it.

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Choose “Run”, and after the download, again, choose “Run“. Wait for the installtion to finish and look at the top of the browser, a little bar will pop up and ask us if we want to run Active X control.  Make sure the publisher is “Microsoft Corporation”. Click on “Run“, and then on Allow.

Now, look at the video of the installation I have made for you. The video will show you the process of installing SQL Server 2008 Express.

After that, all you need to do is run the “SQL Server Configuration Manager” under “Configuration Tools” and configure it the way you want it.

BTW, the track used is La Noche by Coca & Villa .IT’s AWESOME!!!

Have fun…bye!

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