Upgrading Windows Server 2003 To Windows 2008 R2

July 13, 2010

Upgrading Windows Server 2003 To Windows 2008 R2

By Mads Kristensen

I recently had to come up with a good argument for upgrading a Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. It is used as a web server, so the benefit I was looking for was the upgrade of IIS 6 to IIS 7.5.

So I thought, why not make two deploys of the exact same website to both server editions and compare the performance. It so happens to be that there are many performance comparison articles about this floating around, but no one addressed the client-side aspect of the performance differences.

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