09 Apr
What do you do if you want to look for combinations of word strings in Gigabytes of IIS log files but don’t want to spend any money?
You download a program called Strings.
This is a SysInternals program now owned by Microsoft that will search through text files for word strings and kick them out to […]
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28 Mar
Ran across something interesting this week. I was looking into performance on some of our webservers and noticed that there would be unexplained CPU spikes every once in a while. No real spikes in traffic, no additional tasks going on.
In the event logs I did find something that correlated with the CPU spikes:
Event ID: 7036
"The […]
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27 Mar
So if you are running Windows 2003 with IIS 6 and all of your web applications are running ASP .Net 2.0 you might want to get rid of .Net 1.1.
Well with Windows 2003 it isn’t easy or advisable to completely remove .Net 1.1 but you can unregister is from IIS having the same affect […]
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21 Mar
So I posted earlier on splitting up the robots.txt you are showing based on if the bot was connecting on http or https here. I commented at the end that if this is an existing site and Google has already indexed your https content you need to be careful. Once you block Google from reindexing […]
Posted in Hosting, SEO, Systems by: chris.super
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16 Mar
One of the big things a lot of people are doing these days is SEO or search engine optimization. I am not planning on going over a comprehensive guide for SEO right now but as I run into them in my own job I will post them here.
One of the more recent tasks I had […]
Posted in Hosting, SEO, Systems by: chris.super
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19 Feb
So I ran across something kind of interesting the other day. I was setting up Microsoft CRM 4.0. I got the server setup and the website configured but when I went to the website it prompted me for my username and password. I would type it in and the authentication would fail. I tried it […]
Posted in Security, Software, Systems by: chris.super
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22 Mar
We have been digging into some of our downloads at work lately and have seen a ton of Error 416 - Requested Range not satisfiable in the logs. I had never see the 416 error before and since there were so many of these in the logs I become alarmed.
Official Definition is: The server returns […]
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22 Aug
We have running into a problem lately at the company I work for where there is a problem, a big one at that, that no-one can seem to find the cause. What do you do when you have a random chain effect problem? We have numerous web servers that also running applications on the backend […]
Posted in General, Networking, Security, Systems, load balancing by: chris.super
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