Yeah, the MS stack is surprisingly fast out of the box, so long as you avoid using pretty much everything that comes with ASP.NET in the "Rich Controls" departm

Yeah, the MS stack is surprisingly fast out of the box, so long as you avoid using pretty much everything that comes with ASP.NET in the "Rich Controls" department. We accidentally launched Twiddla and survived our first two Redditings while serving the site from a desktop behind a Business DSL line. Surprisingly, it never batted an eye handling the load. Probably shouldn't admit it, but up until we finally moved to a real box at a datacenter, the production server doubled as a gaming machine. Even with FarCry running, we never had an issue keeping up with load!