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 […]
IIS 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 ASP.NET Hosting – 3 Months Free – Click Here!! 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, WindowsGreat Pointers For Analyzing Memory Crash Dumps
This is an older article (2006) but still an excellent resource for anyone who has to do deep troubleshooting and research to determine the cause of a crash in a .NET application. With these tips, and perhaps just a little luck, you can even trace the issue down to the exact line of code that’s […]
.NET, Hosting, IIS, System Administration, Troubleshooting, WindowsNeed to take ownership of multiple files or folders in Windows Server 2008?
If you find yourself in a situation where you need to take ownership of a large number of files and/or folders – like after a data restore – you can either do it the tedious way using the properties dialog one file/folder at a time, or you can use TAKEOWN. TAKEOWN allows you to take […]
System Administration, WindowsA Tip For Resolving Group Policy Error 0x8007000d
Rick Barber at OrcsWeb wrote a blog post about Resolving Group Policy Error 0x8007000d that might be helpful so I’m reposting here. Happy hosting!
System Administration, Troubleshooting, WindowsTroubleshooting SSL in IIS
Terri Donahue @ OrcsWeb was helping a client with an SSL problem recently and wrote up this nice guest post below to help anyone else who may be in a similar troubleshooting situation. ————————————————————- I encountered a very interesting SSL issue while resolving a problem for a client this week. An SSL certificate was installed […]
Hosting, IIS, System Administration, Troubleshooting, WindowsHow to set content expiration for your IIS7 site
Do you want to assure that client browsers will always download the latest copy of your page(s) rather than potentially pulling an outdated page from their local cache? You can enable and manage content expiration in IIS7 to control this at the server-side. Below is a walk-through of enabling this using the IIS7 Remote Management […]
Hosting, IIS, Learning, WindowsInstalling and configuring Bonobo GIT Server for Windows (IIS7) for remote IIS push capability (Guest Post)
A co-worker – Terri Donahue – was helping a client the other day with some troubleshooting for GIT’s remote push capabilities on Window Server (IIS7). She had zero previous experience with GIT but after some research and testing she got it working. I thought it might be useful to others so asked that she do […]
Hosting, IIS, System Administration, Troubleshooting, WindowsResolving 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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