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Learn how to cache and store the MySQL query result in your web server RAM memory, utilizing PHP WinCache or OPcache

Use PHP to calculate the size of MySQL databases.

This post describes some of the IIS URL Rewrite Module web.config equivalents of commonly used Apache .htaccess settings. You'll learn how to translate .htaccess content to IIS web.config, this is useful when you need to migrate your website from Apache to Windows Server IIS.

In this article you'll learn how to install and set up PHP with the Windows Cache Extension (WinCache) on windows IIS web servers. WinCache enabled PHP gives a great PHP performance boost for your WordPress-, Drupal or Joomla website. This post will show you it's not hard to set up high performance PHP hosting on IIS.

Removing ETag response headers is not an easy task in Windows Server IIS web servers. Here I show you how to properly remove ETag HTTP response headers with an IIS Rewrite Module Outbound rewrite rule.

The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value is an IIS error telling you the length of the given URL exceeds a limit. The Windows Server IIS maximum URL length is defined by the `HttpRuntimeSection.MaxUrlLength` property. Its value is 260 characters. This may cause problems with longer than configured `maxUrlLength` URL's, and here is how to resolve this max URL length issue.

Acunetix' Bogdan Calin wrote an article explaining why .htaccess files should not be used to secure sensitive data

HyperDB is an advanced database class for WordPress that supports replication and partition of data. HyperDB is a replacement for the standard wpdb class.

Multiple vulnerabilities found in IIS 6.0 and 7.5 web servers and reported to the Full-Disclosure mailinglist by Kingcope. I took some time to test the various vulnerablities.

Create your own HTTP web blocklist filter to block and filter unwanted web HTTP traffic with blocklists.

Silently deploy applications through Windows Deployment Services (WDS) / Microsoft Deployment Workbench

Every time you write or edit a WordPress post, WordPress saves the change as a post revision. As you might expect, this fills up your database with a huge amount of unneeded post revisions and information. This uses space which should be free space, the MySQL database becomes bloated. You can clean up these WordPress post revisions quite easily, you only need one (1) simple SQL statement.

After applying MS11-100, an out-of-band security update for ASP.NET to mitigate an ASP.NET Denial of Service vulnerability, you may experience the errors comming from .NET web applications

In this post I'll show you how to install Helicon Ape in Windows Server IIS and use .htaccess files in your website. Yes, expect a lot of .htaccess examples for IIS

Learn how to stop and start all application pools using VBScript and ADSI in Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0. Query IIS' Metabase for all AppPool objects and their .State property.