06-30-2024, 08:05 PM
I remember this one time at my old gig. We had this server humming along fine until suddenly the site lagged bad. Customers complaining left and right. I poked around, thinking maybe the hardware was choking. Turned out the culprit was elsewhere.
Logs showed requests piling up. Database queries dragging their feet. I checked the app pool settings first. Recycled it, and boom, a bit better. But not enough.
Then I looked at the traffic. Too many hits from bots or whatever. Firewall rules tightened that up quick. Memory usage was spiking too.
Killed some rogue processes eating RAM. Swapped out a faulty drive that was bottlenecking reads. Network cables? Yeah, one was frayed, slowing packets.
CPU was maxed from inefficient code in the app. Profiled it lightly, optimized a few loops. Now it purrs.
You might hit disk I/O issues next. Or maybe antivirus scanning files too hard. Check event viewer for clues.
Bandwidth caps from your host could sneak in. Test with tools like ping or traceroute, simple stuff.
Update IIS patches if they're old. And watch for malware hiding in uploads.
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