Understanding IIS Website Limits: Connection Timeout, Bandwidth, and Connection Limits (opens in new tab)

In this blog, I am sharing learnings from multiple real-world issues I have worked on where the root cause came down to just three IIS Website Limit settings. On the surface, these options feel pretty straightforward in the UI but in practice, they can quietly become the reason behind major incidents. I have seen these settings trigger timeouts, dropped connections, and strange performance issues sometimes even before the request makes it to your application. That’s what makes them tricky eve...