It's obviously getting slammed, and it doesn't seem to handle the slamming well. Microsoft attributes the problems partly to skyrocketing use, which officials are estimating at 88 million hits per day.
Solutions are on the way, but so are more potential problems.
Microsoft is developing a new version of IIS to improve performance. However, this fall, Microsoft may give those performance gains back when it adds power-draining features such as push and personalization to the site. Within a short time, Microsoft had discovered the breach, fixed it and posted a patch that requires NT Service Pack 3. But plugging the security breach didn't satisfy all users. Conn. To address the problems, Microsoft will add crash-protection and recovery features in IIS 4.0, which was released to limited beta testing last week.