Website Page Load Speed

Check out your website page load speed – for free – using the Google Developer online testing tool. ASP.NET Hosting – 3 Months Free – Click Here!! 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. […]

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Performance 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. ASP.NET Hosting – 3 Months Free – Click Here!! Happy hosting!

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Log 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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Changing the table owner in SQL Server 2012

When OrcsWeb says they do Managed Windows Server Hosting, they really mean it. As part of that managed hosting, they often engage in beta programs and include their clients so that both the OrcsWeb staff and the end-users can get familiar with certain products prior to the release. One such product is Microsoft SQL Server […]

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IIS7 Mime Mappings

For very good reasons, not all extensions are recognized by IIS by default and may return a 404 error when trying to access them from your site. If you have need to add more extensions to be “allowed” – for example if you have embedded font files – you have a few different options. One […]

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Resolving a “There is a duplicate ‘system.web.extensions/scripting/scriptResourceHandler’ section defined” Error

People get this error a lot when upgrading an ASP.NET 2.0 application to ASP.NET 4.0. Here is a link to common ASP.NET 4 Breaking Changes: http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet4/breaking-changes#0.1__Toc256770149 And here is the section that applies to this error: “The workaround for the second scenario is to delete or comment out all the system.web.extensions configuration section definitions and […]

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IIS Compression

Do you want to both save money and speed the load time of your web pages? Then check out IIS’s built-in compression feature. You can access it from the IIS management console: Then make sure both of these boxes are checked. There are some very rare situations where the compression conflicts with an application – […]

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URL Rewrite Sample to Add www to the URL

Here is a sample web.config file to redirect any requests to http://site.com to http://www.site.com. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”Add www” patternSyntax=”Wildcard” stopProcessing=”true”> <match url=”*” /> <conditions> <add input=”{HTTP_HOST}” pattern=”www.site.com” negate=”true” /> </conditions> <action type=”Redirect” url=”http://www.site.com/{R:1}” /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> </system.webServer> </configuration>

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URL Rewrite 301 Redirect For a Single Page

Want to set up a 301 redirect for a certain single page on your site to send users to a different URL? Below is a very simple web.config file I created on an IIS7 server to demonstrate performing this action. The rule looks for a URL of http://<yourdomain.com>/folder1/default.aspx and, if found, returns an HTTP Status code […]