Improving the perfromance of a web server is a continuos process of refinemnt.

In a nutshell a web site is only as fast as the first bottleneck you encounter will let it be. A bottleneck can be as simple as a setting in the registry or in whatever web server software you are using, or it can be disk IO, lack of RAM, general speed of the processor/RAM?system bus combination or, as most people find from an end-user point of view the bandwidth of a connection.

The trick is to find the first bottleneck. Resolve the issue and then find the next and so on until it performs well enough for your liking. You can always make it run better, but perfomance gains are usually smaller once you've reached a certainlevel. (e.g. a supercomputer on a 100Mbit+ connection that is tuned ever so well :)

If you have the funds employing a Managed Service Provider (MSP) like iSharp wil enable you to performance test your site and isolate these bottlenecks as well as suggest possible solutions for you to consider. I am an employee of this company so of course I am biased, but we have competetors that you can investigate as well, or you can invest a lot of money and time and buy a tool like Silk, Load Runner etc and do it yourself. At any rate you need a benchmarking tool of some sort that can produce load on the site to be able to consistently expose your site's bottlenecks.

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by tabbytha edited by DrTCP