IIS Resource Monitoring and Isolation
In my experience with IIS I have noticed that there is room for improvment in regards to monitoring resources and isolating issues and resource problems. This is of particular concern within the a shared hosting solution when specific abusers need to be isolated and have action taken against them. Unlike many enteprise deployments shared hosting enviroments envolve several users and websites with a wide deployment of code types. Application development often ranges from novice to expert and it is very important that a hoster have the capability to distinguish bad code (i.e. memory leaks, loops) from potential attacks or traffic anomolies. Although their are tools for debuggin iis processes and applications it is often difficult to truly determine the true culprit, or if the system has reached it's limits. Also from a reporting and planning standpoint it would be useful to manage these resources more easily. A lot of trial an error is involved with capacity planning in the shared hosting world. Anytools that would allow hosters to make informed decisions on hardware specs, storage capacity, website usage would be a plus. Also i'd point out that although there are so great debugging solutions such as adplus, iis state, iismon these tools aren't always intuitve and easily configurable for system administrators. I want to know what peoples thoughts are on a troubleshooting tool that can pinpoint utilization issues in a shared hosting enviroment. Are there ways of leveraging the many technologies that are available in this enviroment (WSRM comes to mind). I'll stop babbling and just wait for others to chime in.
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