Over at LeanServer we have officially launched our first product, called ScaleUP.  In short, ScaleUP is low level IIS 7 module that takes over  the upload process and provides a much more efficient upload engine. This means less servers are required to handle many more concurrent uploads, and you won’t have to suffer with significant performance decreases as you handle more uploads.  You can see significant improvements just by dropping in the module.  We also provide additional APIs that allow you to get see even more performance increases and let you customize the process for any unique needs you might have.

We’re pretty excited about this. We’ve done a ton of testing and they really show some very significant improvements — and not just when it comes to the actual upload request — because ultimately having users uploading data to your web server can cause increased latency, more timeouts, and additional errors when serving other pages as well.

At the risk of sounding too much like an advertisement, here’s a brief list of the types of things you will see when using ScaleUP:

• Up to 20x faster upload speeds
• Reliable uploads of unlimited size
• Reduced application impact (no thread starvation, lower disk usage, etc)
• Scaling to thousands of active uploads on a single server
• Full support for streaming, filtering, server-side progress reporting, and other common upload features
• Transparent support for ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, and any other IIS 7.0-compatible application (regardless of framework upload limitations)

The LeanServer founder and CTO, Mike Volodarsky, has written more extensively about why these problems exist in the first place, and has more information on how we are able to fix many of these problems with ScaleUP. If you’re interested check out the ScaleUP product page, download the brochure, or contact us about trying the product yourself.