Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) web server is the 2nd mostly used web server package around the world only after Apache. It is a well known fact that a web server gives it's optimum performance when tweaked accordingly.

In this article we will tell you about a tool called IIS Tuner which automatically configures your IIS server installation for optimum performance for both the server and ASP.NET applications that you may run on your IIS server. IIS Tuner takes care of all the optimisation needs so that you can pay all your attention on application development.

IIS Tuner provides the following performance tweaks to the IIS server:

• HTTP & TCP registry settings

• machine.config settings

• IIS & ASP.NET settings

Installing IIS Tuner is easy. After you have installed IIS Server on your system, download the IIS Tuner package and extract it's contents. In order to apply the tweaks to your IIS server, just double click on the IISTuner.exe file in the package. After the installation, your IIS server will get optimised for best performance.

Download IIS Tuner: iistuner.codeplex.com/releases/view/62096

IIS Tuner Website: iistuner.codeplex.com