A friend on mine had a recent issue where the restore of a SQL Server backup file – taken on one server and being restored to a different one – wouldn’t complete. It would continually throw an error of: Server was unable to process request. —> File ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\TheDatabase_log.ldf’ is claimed by ‘YAF_log'(2) […]
Orchard: Custom Content in Sub-Folders
Orchard doesn’t seem to like anything in it’s web root except for it’s own content. Try it out – create a folder (I created /TestContent/) and then put a test from there (I created test.html) and try to access it. You’ll get a 404 error. Orchard “traps” all requests and effectively kills them if it […]
ASP.NET, CMS, cytanium, Development/Coding, Hosting, IIS, Orchard, OrcsWeb, System Administration, tip, TroubleshootingMVC3, Visual Studio 2010: Error: Microsoft JScript runtime error: Not implemented
Okay, so I’ve started tinkering with MVC3 just to get familiar with what more-and-more people are working with now from a Windows Internet development perspective. I have a development/test VM running Windows Server 2008 R2 so I figured I’d install it there and walk-through some of the online tutorials. Well, right out of the bat […]
ASP.NET, Development/Coding, Hosting, MVC, tip, TroubleshootingEnable Caching in IIS to Speed Performance
Google’s various page speed testing tools seem to prefer browser caching set with at least a one week expiration set. That makes great sense to me! Setting a browser cache expiration tells the visitor’s browser that is is okay to cache the content – so upon the next visit the browser will load the content […]
cytanium, Hosting, IIS, OrcsWeb, System Administration, WindowsWebsite Page Load Speed
Check out your website page load speed – for free – using the Google Developer online testing tool. https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/# Not only with it show your page load speed, but it will give tips on how to further optimize the site so that it loads even faster. Happy hosting!
Hosting, tipIIS 7.x Shared Configuration
Below is a guest post from Rick Barber, the Senior Support Specialist at OrcsWeb, a managed Windows hosting provider specializing in Windows cloud server hosting and dedicated Windows hosting. If you find the following to be useful, check out the link at the end for more resourceful tips from Rick. Before the release of Internet Information […]
Hosting, IIS, OrcsWeb, System Administration, WindowsPerformance Monitor Tips: Identifying Bottlenecks
Great resource find by Peter at Managed Windows Host OrcsWeb. I really liked this detailed explanation of using perf mon counters to identify performance bottlenecks: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.08.pulse.aspx?pr=blog#id0120037 Many of the counters will be familiar, however I really liked that they identified thresholds for each counter. Happy hosting!
OrcsWeb, System Administration, tip, Troubleshooting, WindowsLog Parser: Pulling Valuable Data From IIS Logs
Microsoft’s Log Parser is an awesome tool that justifies knowledge, if not even regular use, by both system administrators and web users alike. From the download site: “Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key […]
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