Windows IT Pro Magazine’s latest issue, the section “CTRL+ALT+DEL” – a section reserved for funny and odd message boxes that occasionally appear in software – features “Top 10 IT Admin Fears”.  Number 1 is “Fear of silence in the server room”.  Yes that is quite scary.  Number 5 is “Fear that the server running your […]

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In the first part of this series, two main areas that contribute to poor performance were discussed: hardware and software.  Part 2 will discuss other software that can contribute to poor performance.
It’s STILL a software problem
The structure, size, or location of HTML, images, JavaScript, CSS, etc., can make the difference between a page load time […]

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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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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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Who hasn’t experienced poor performance with a computer at one time or another?  Or how about a slow website….that is so painfully slow….that you just give up in frustration. 
There should be a website devoted to overcoming poor performance, but, there simply isn’t one.  Sure, there are numerous websites and blogs that provide tips and tricks […]

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Monitoring Software is prolific in the IT world; however, to the newly initiated sys admin, figuring out what you need for your servers is not nearly as hard as finding out what all of the terminology means.  The problem is that there is no standard terminology that we (the IT world) can use to effectively […]

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