Our server family as grown! Tonight, we added a “new” Dell 1850 webserver to the rack, which allows us to divorce the SQL Server from the web server — allowing each machine to focus on what it does best. Our monitoring provider tells me that between noon and 7:00 tonight, before we installed the new server, it was taking between 10-15 seconds to load the homepage 100%. (The delay was often caused by the banner ad.. info came up quicker.) Post-install, the homepage has been loading 100% in an average of 0.8 seconds…
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