One or more applications with one or more dedicated worker process is called application Pool.
Advantages of Application Pool :
- Application pool is going to provide a security separate boundary between applications running in the different application Pools
- A Crash in One Application pool will not impact the application running in the other
- Application pool by default contains only one worker process
- An Application with multiple worker process is called as Web Garden
- It Will provide fail over support and Load Balances and No Single Point of Failure
How to Create an Application Pool?
By Default it will be created when site is Created. but if you still wanted to create another one, Follow the below steps
- Open IIS Manager
- Right Click On Application Pools
- Select New, Application pool
- Enter Application Pool Name and Click OK (In IIS 6.0)
- Enter Name, and select the .Net Frame work Version & Managed Pipeline Mode, Click OK
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IIS