Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications
I would like to thank Kyle Beyer of Daptivate for putting this post together. This is a great resource for developers as well as server administrators. Some of what I think are the most critical steps for any production server I have pulled out below for your browsing pleasure. 1. Generate new encryption keys When moving an application to production for the first time it is a good idea to generate new encryption keys. This includes the machine validation key and decryption key as well as any other custom keys your application may be using. There is an article on CodeProject that talks about generating machineKeys specifically that should be helpful with this. ...