Consultancy Soup

https://spbreed.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/powershell-to-report-memory-leaks-and-assembly-info-on-sharepoint-20132010-custom-solutions/

came across this nice blog https://lennytech.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/hostheader-managed-paths-for-host-named-site-collections/ one note that no need to create managed path for "sites" as it exists already