Server Error: Web... is busy

[ConnerS]

I am so glad to have found this site.

I have been dealing with a problem off and on for a year.

Everyonce in a while I get an error message when I attempt to log on to my
remote site. It comes up even before I get the username and password screen.
When I call the webmaster that has the root web, he is having no problem and
can open my sub web. The help desk can't see a problem, but they fix it by
restarting iis.
Here is the error:
Server error: Web/school/seton_catholic_hs is busy.
It appears to happen when there are a lot of hits on the .asp pages. Im
using Windows XP (although it also happens from work which is Windows NT) and
FP 2002 10.6308.6735 SP3 with IIS 5.0
Any ideas?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

The fact that this occurs when logging in indicates that, indeed, the web
server is busy. That is, it has too much work on its hands to handle your
request to log in. This is confirmed by your assertation that "It appears to
happen when there are a lot of hits on the .asp pages."

All software has limitations, including web servers. The immediate solution
is to wait for maybe a half hour and try again. The long-term solution could
be either identifying periods of time during which the server is less busy
and using those time periods, or getting a more powerful machine and server
configuration to host on. IIS is certainly capable of handling a huge
workload (consider microsoft.com, for example). However, the less expensive
hosting packages do not provide this sort of configuration.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.

 

[ConnerS]

That certainly seems to make sense. At first that is what we thought was
happeniing. But the fact that the root webmaster can open my site makes me
wonder. Are there log files at the server level that the host can see?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You're attempting to log in remotely. The administrator is logging in
locally.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.