Closed Poll: Do you use the numerical keyboard?
-
yeah, but it doesn't result in nearly so many hilarious stories and broken furniature,.
watching the guys when they get drunk is always good for a laugh!
-
Or drinking somewhere walking distance to home.
-
True, but still too expensive.
-
why application pools are a thing
Application pools allow you to tell the server which version of .NET each web app/service needs. Also, if you want to go to the effort of creating the necessary controls, you can create a separate app pool for each web app/service. This allows multiple benefits. Off the top of my head at the moment:
- Ability to control access within the server for each application pool. This can be useful depending on the needs of each process.
- Ability to track the resources being used by each application pool. If an application pool is being very resource hungry, and only one app/service is using that pool, then you know where to look for the resource drain.
- As @mott555 said, it allows you to kill individual websites and services. This came in really useful when doing a migrated upgrade of TFS last week. I was able to turn off the old TFS without touching anything on the old server, and activate it on the new server without any trouble
why IIS allows the server to be "up" even if all the application pools are stopped
I'm not quite sure what you are getting at here. IIS is a service on the server. What should happen is that any requests to the hosted site(s) get no response.
-
The park down the street with a bottle you brought from home in a brown paper bag is pretty cheap. At least until you have to pay the fines for drunkenly relieving yourself on the community "artwork"...
-
Apparently Pandora is reading over my shoulder aliens. This just came on...
-
-
It has nothing to do with the design of IIS.
You can easily turn off Apache and then go do something else and forget about it and not turn it back on, because you're an incompetent idiot.
-
why application pools are a thing
Seriously? Is this a serious question?
and why IIS allows the server to be "up" even if all the application pools are stopped.
You realize you can have more than one application pool per instance of IIS, right?
that is not a server that is online if you ask me.
The server is online; the application on the server is not. It's a pretty important distinction to make.