Why Tune Your Web Servers?

There are a number of good business reasons for you to tune your Web servers. First, the improved performance that tuning provides will create a better user experience with less waiting while the server responds to requests. Tuning will help prevent usage bottlenecks, and can extend the time between hardware upgrades or the purchase of new servers for your Web farm. This allows you to budget for when you really need to purchase new components such as RAM, processors, disks, and network cards.

Along with these business reasons, there are a number of technical reasons to tune your Web server's performance. Tuning allows you to best take advantage of the hardware that you do have and to determine what upgrades you need to make now or in the future. By tuning your Web server, you can maximize throughput and minimize response times of your Web applications, and determine which applications are handling peak loads as required.