Tune Web site performance
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About virtual server configuration settings
You can specify general settings for a virtual server on the Change Configuration Settings page in the following categories:
Enable authoring
If you need to stop users from publishing to the Web site while you perform maintenance tasks, you can disable authoring. Note that when you disable authoring, no users can publish new information to the site. Note that users can still modify items on the pages of a SharePoint team Web site, but cannot add new pages. Be sure you notify users before you disable authoring, so they do not lose any current work.
Mail settings
Periodically, the server sends e-mail notification or other messages to users of your site or to you, the administrator. In this section, you can specify the SMTP mail server to use for these messages. You also can type the From and Reply-to address to use for these messages, and specify which mail encoding option and character set to use in the e-mail messages.
Performance tuning
The speed with which a Web server responds to requests from a client depends a lot on the size of the Web site, particularly the number of pages and the other files it contains. You can improve a Web site's response time by tuning it. When you tune a Web site, SharePoint Team Services sets aside a certain amount of disk space as a cache for the Web site, based on the number of Web pages. For example, you can tune a Web site for less than 100 pages or for more than 1,000, or use the custom setting and fill in your own cache sizes. You can use the default cache settings or specify settings or specify settings for the in-memory document cache, the include file cache, the image file cache, the full-text search index size, and the maximum cached document size.
Client scripting
Use this section to specify which type of client scripting language you want to allow. SharePoint Team Services supports either JavaScript (the default) or Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). You can also choose not to allow any client scripting on your virtual server.
Security settings
Use this section to specify which security settings to implement on a virtual server. You can track information about the authoring processes, require the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security for all authoring and administration actions, or specify whether or not to allow users to store executable files on your virtual server.
On the Server Administration page, under Virtual Servers, next to the virtual server you want to change, click Administration.
Under Administration, click Change configuration settings.
In the Performance Tuning area, in the Tune for box, select the number of pages in the Web site.
If you don't want to use the default cache sizes, specify the cache sizes to use in the Tuning properties area.
In theIn- memory document cache box, type the number of documents to keep in active memory.
In the Include file cache box, type the number of documents that can be included on a page.
In the Image file cache box, type the number of images to cache while recalculating hyperlinks.
In the Full-text search index size box, type the amount of hard disk space to use for the full-text index.
In the Max cached document size box, type the maximum size to allow for cached documents.
Click Submit.