NOTE: While this article focuses on ASMX services, the same server-side performance tuning principles can be applied to WCF services as well.     Typical Web Service Configuration A typical services hosting configuration involves a set of ASP.NET services (ASMX services) or WCF services hosted inside an HTTP Server (IIS Server).  These services (ASMX or WCF) access data repositories (either relational databases or XML data sources) through a Data Access... [More]