Improvements in IIS 8
Several key enhancements and structural changes have been made to the new IIS 8 web and application platform. These enhancements are designed not only to build upon the latest version of .NET, but also to improve overall scalability, performance, security, and administration. Some of the major IIS 8 improvements that IT professionals, web admins, and developers will take pleasure in having include the following:
• Dynamic IP restrictions—IIS 8 supports automatic blacklisting of IP addresses based on the number of requests. This feature is supported for both the website and FTP site functions of IIS. The FTP feature behaves somewhat differently in that IP addresses are blacklisted as a result of failed authentication attempts ...
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