Did you ever wonder why a lot of companies buy a lot of large servers with 8 GB and then waste their horse power by not configuring them properly?

Every experienced software architect in the Microsoft world knows, that a 32bit Windows (even a server) can allocate a maximum of 2 GB per user-space process and additionally 2 GB of kernel-space memory. So why buying a server with 8 GB of RAM and having it wasted all that memory? The trick is of course a way to use more than one process to do the work the server was bought for. In an ASP.NET web application that means using multiple w3wp.exe worker processes, also known as a Web Garden. But how do you configure your application pool to make maximum use of your server resources? Well, Jesper has written an execellent article about that specific topic. You should really take a look!

And by the way: Don't forget about the Session State or you might loose a lot of customers.