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I stumbled across a cool SaaS load-testing site: http://loadimpact.com/

There are some very cool and exciting things happening with Microsoft's web stack, one of which is the new elastic cloud services for IIS. These new services leverage WFF and ARR, which are two awesome (fairly) new IIS technologies.

By default WebMatrix projects, which run in IIS Express, are accessible only from the local machine using the localhost name in the URL. There are some situations though in which you might want to run the project on either the server name or an IP address so that someone on another machine can access the application for review.

Here is a sample web.config file to redirect any requests to http://site.com to http://www.site.com.

Want to set up a 301 redirect for a certain single page on your site to send users to a different URL?

There is a new extension for IIS - currently in beta 2 - that helps mitigate or block a denial of service or brute force attack. It's called the The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS.

I find it interesting that in 20+ years of working in technology, most of those years working with Windows systems, that yesterday was the first day I ran into this issue: Windows cannot create a folder named "com1".

Microsoft updated Web PI 3 on Friday. You can get the update by opening Web PI on your local machine if it is already installed (it will auto-prompt you to update) or download it directly from here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx