Limiting Connections and Setting Connection Timeout

Limiting connections is a way to conserve bandwidth for other uses, such as e-mail or news servers, or for another Web site running on the same installation. All connection attempts beyond the connection limit are rejected. When a browser stops working unexpectedly or a connection is lost in midstream, the site continues to process data until the timeout value is reached. Setting a timeout value reduces loss of processing resources for broken connections.

To decide whether to limit connections
  1. Use System Monitor to log the Current Connections, Maximum Connections, and Total Connection Attempts counters in at least the Web Service and FTP Service objects.
  2. Continue logging until you have a good sense of the normal range; typically, this can take several days, to a week, or more.
To limit the number of connections
  1. In the Internet Information Services snap-in, select the Web site and click the Properties button to display its property sheets.
  2. On the Web Site property sheet, select the Limited to option.
  3. Type the maximum number of simultaneous connections you want to allow in the Maximum Connections box.
  4. Note   The Unlimited option permits as many simultaneous connections as your bandwidth and processor can support.

  5. Type the connection timeout value in seconds in the Connection Timeout box.

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