Web & Application Platform Features

Windows Server 2012 provides an ideal platform to run high-density web servers with the following new capabilities:

• Server Name Indication (SNI) enables you to create high-density, security-enhanced sites
• NUMA architecture takes advantage of high-spec hardware
• Centralized SSL store dynamically maps sites to certificates

Windows Server 2012 helps ensure the ongoing performance of your web applications with the following new capabilities:

• Application Initialization improves the user experience of first requests
• CPU Throttling helps ensure no one web application impacts the performance of others
• Dynamic FTP and IP restrictions perform policy-based blocking of rogue access

Windows Server 2012 provides the mechanisms for rapid deployment and scale-out and consistent configurations with the following new capabilities:

• Shared configurations help ensure consistency across web farms
• Configuration Editor provides a rich visual method to edit web configurations
• Script Generator creates repeatable actions for building repeatable configurations