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Is it Just Me, or is Microsoft.com the SLOWEST site ever?!
I often visit Microsoft’s site for various reasons: get new templates for Word, read some of the forums, download software, etc. However, as of late, it is getting so painful just to go to some parts of their site. To be fair, I’m certain that […]
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In my last post, I discussed an issue where a connection to a database, via ODBC, is dropped when a network connection is intermittent.
This led me to search the Internet for similar situations and circumstances that other may have encountered. Nothing significant turned up, so I went to the source: Microsoft. Posting on […]
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Sounds like a commercial from a drug company “Network Problems Can Cause Adverse Side Effects…sleeplessness, chest pain…”, but, I digress.
Let me set the stage of my testbed configuration: On Windows XP SP2, my default connection to the Internet is via wireless express card modem using EV-DO via Verizon Wireless. Let’s call this connection A. […]
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If you are like me and keep a close eye on tools that guage and monitor website performance, you no doubt have heard about Yahoo’s guide on Exceptional Performance:
“Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices […]
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Recently was working on a production instance of Windows Server 2003 that hosts one of our key installations of WebWatchBot to monitor our servers. This instance is on a virtual machine, using Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 R2, that was initially created with 16GB of disk space. For anyone not familiar with Virtual Server, once you allocate […]
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I’ve been trying out the Pandora, an online music station that plays music similar to any artist you type in. You type in “Beatles” and you will hear a song from the Beatles, then a song from a similar artist. You can rate the song you hear to get better suggestions. Cool concept.
Unfortunately for me, […]
New website developers and system administrators sometimes ask the question, “why is our website so slow?” The answer is often easy: the web server is overloaded, the database is being throttled by slow queries, etc. But how do you narrow it down and get to those answers?
A step by step approach can lead you directly […]
Send in URLs of slowly performance websites for analysis and recommendations.
Google’s Inside Adwords Blog recently featured the article “Landing page load time will soon be incorporated into Quality Score”.
As part of our continuing efforts to improve the user experience, we will soon incorporate an additional factor into Quality Score: landing page load time. Load time is the amount of time it takes for a user […]
Let me start off by stating that I am an avid gamer. I enjoy playing games on the Wii, Nintendo DS and on my PC. Before I commit to purchasing a new game, I usually check out the game’s website to look at screenshots, read up on the story-line, or download a demo. In the […]
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