It’s not always obvious, but most explicit calls by EPiServer applications made to Global.UrlRewriterProvider.ConvertToExternal() are at best superfluous, at worst directly detrimental to both functionality and performance. First of all the extra...

This post describes a rather obscure problem, and its solution, that occurred when we upgraded to ImageVault 3.5.4 with .NET 4.0 and EPiServer CMS 6 R2. For once, I don’t quite understand all that happens, or rather why, but I’m hoping someone...

If your EPiServer site consumes more than 1Gb, and you can’t explain in measured detail why, you probably have a problem. I’m often called in when EPiServer sites have problems under load in live production settings. Problems that can’t be...

I’ve been working for some time with performance optimization of a reasonably large EPiServer site, and it’s been a very learning experience. This is not a post about specific fixes to specific issues, it’s about high-level design principles. The...

This is about what I found in EPiServer and why it concerns *you*, and a contest for you to enter in. Not only for the glory, but for the fine prizes! My wife is very understanding, she let’s me ramble on about my everyday nerdy problems and says...