websites versus app pool Archives - Anuj Varma, Hands-On Technology Architect, Clean Air Activist https://www.anujvarma.com/tag/websites-versus-app-pool/ Production Grade Technical Solutions | Data Encryption and Public Cloud Expert Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.anujvarma.com/wp-content/uploads/anujtech.png websites versus app pool Archives - Anuj Varma, Hands-On Technology Architect, Clean Air Activist https://www.anujvarma.com/tag/websites-versus-app-pool/ 32 32 IIS–websites versus app pools https://www.anujvarma.com/iiswebsites-versus-app-pools/ https://www.anujvarma.com/iiswebsites-versus-app-pools/#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:41:43 +0000 http://www.anujvarma.com/?p=2612 A lot of people tend to use these interchangeably. From IIS’s perspective, a website is nothing more than a physical folder (and possibly virtual directories as well). That is – […]

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]]> A lot of people tend to use these interchangeably. From IIS’s perspective, a website is nothing more than a physical folder (and possibly virtual directories as well). That is – Websites – are storage as far as IIS is concerned. No CPU bound executable, no memory usage. Just plain folders and (virtual) directories.

An Application Pool is where all the action occurs. It constitutes the executable code that are part of your ASP.NET application. So – app pools are less about storage – and all about CPU and memory.

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