Category: Server

Server

Windows Update or Microsoft Update: Additional error code information for advanced users

Introduction When you use the Windows Update website or the Microsoft Update website to check for and install updates, you may receive one of the errors that are listed in the "Symptoms" section. Important In most cases, these errors are caused by small interruptions in communications between the computer to be updated and the update to be downloaded. These issues usually resolve themselves. Before you try the troubleshooting methods in this article, try one or both of the following. · Exit Windows Update, wait 10 to 15 minutes, and then restart Windows Update to check for updates. · Turn on […]

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Server, Web Technologies

Monitoring Web Sites/URLs/Web Pages Uptimes and Performance

Having known the whole world is connected by Web and businesses run on the web sites/page, it comes into major significance to ensure the availability and good performance of web sites/pages facing the customers. To learn about website monitoring, people can read more over at apicasystems.com to see how they can help their websites flourish.   Here are a few methods/options that I have come across and hopefully come in handy for someone a similar role/responsibility.   Use third party web site monitoring services like 24X7   24×7   My Site Response time from California exceeded 3000 ms. View Online […]

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Server

PingDom analyzes/indexes/crawls all of your web pages

While evaluating pingdom for website monitoring, I noticed that it tries to crawl over all of our web servers, for a given url and then seem to be further analyzing/indexing/crawling all of web pages.  This has increased load on the web servers and their user agent "Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)" is causing constant failure/error logs in web server.   Created a new empty Vendor Vendor: quiz = 0 Create RunSession new runssn.getId() == xxxxxxx ip= RunFront: trying to load skin config from database RunFront: Found with base path Weblog addRequest start addRequest: type=start Weblog2.addRequest(start) WelogEntry failed: action=launch remote=xxxxxxxxx ref=null agent=Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/) java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01653: unable […]

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