Folder Compression Option

Log files are necessary to keep track of Web site statistics and trends, and Web developers and business people use them to ensure their Web sites continue to grow. One of the biggest challenges administrators face is how to retain and manage log files. By default, IIS rolls over log files once a day. Your log files can become quite large even if you use the default log file rollover setting.

Windows Server 2008 allows for folder compression to help save space. You can enable this option by using Windows Explorer. Figure 15-8 shows a folder with compression enabled. In this example, the size of the folder is 166 megabytes (MB), but the actual space the folder uses on the disk is only 43.1 MB. If your uncompressed log files ...

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