SQL server has always had difficulty with its backup and maintenance plans in removing old backups. Until now this has been a major issue on some of our servers, each month someone has to go through the backup folder and remove the old Transaction Log and Full Backup folders. No longer – Robocopy to the […]
Recently I discussed how to set up HTTP Compression in IIS 6 using its native gzip support. Here are a couple of tools you can use to verify your compression is set up correctly. Both tell you pretty much the same information, simply enter your URL and it tells you the result, and how much […]
When bandwidth becomes an issue, it is possible to enable HTTP compression between the web server and the browser. This increases CPU load on the web server by a small amount, but can provide fairly massive reductions in page sizes (in the order of 75%). Compression is part of the HTTP/1.1 specification, which means that […]
