I just want to say for the record that the last five minutes of Ingo Rammer's session this afternoon might have been the most valuable of my entire week. My team is deploying a new system next month with Web Services making up a number of components. Obviously, we have not done any load testing of this system yet because it most definitely will not scale - at least not the way ASP.NET is configured by default. In the machine.config, you'll find the following element: <connectionManagement>...