Articles filed under Technical
Is this site secure
As you might have read in the news a few months back, some credit card companies are amending their terms and conditions to insist that their cards may only be used on the Internet to make purchases from 'secure' sites.
Chopping logs
We received an interesting email from Arturo of Bristol, asking if we could help explain the data in his NT4 IIS server log files.
Spam Tracing
It's been a month of email problems.
ASP email handling
It's a favourite trick of ours, which we've shown you before in this column, to send an email message from a Web page using just six lines of ASP code.
DOS Site Monitoring
All of our clients are lovely, but sometimes they can be difficult, and this month one lot in particular has been more difficult than most.
When sites go bad
As we write this column, news has just come in about how the giant US-based on-line auction site, eBay (www.ebay.com) was kept out of action for around 22 hours, allegedly due to technical difficulties.
Fast Serve
As well as total failure, your armoury of useful tools should be able to address performance issues too.
Speed Scripting
Barry Nile emailed us to say that he had recently upgraded his Web site, adding some of the ASP database techniques that we showed a few months ago, but now his site is a lot slower.
Site Research
Would you buy a house without first having a full structural survey done? Probably not - unfortunately Paul once did exactly this and he still has the dry rot to prove it.
An inexact science
While we're on the subject of hits and page impressions, we've pointed out before that many of the tools used for analysing server log files are, how shall we put this politely, somewhat suspect in quality.