.asp pages unable to load

Hi
Rather a tentative question as I am not the webmaster in question. Our
website is an asp dynamic website running its pages via access databases for
raw data, security and logs. Said webmaster put our website on a new Windows
2003 server about a year ago with no problems whatsoever (he is not a
Windows man at all).
For the last three weeks, though, asp pages have completely frozen and do
not load (with no IE error message). They always seem OK after a restart but
have continued to work for a smaller and smaller amount of time (now only
about 3 hours). Webmaster has no idea what to do, and is increasingly
frustrated having to restart the whole time (as it is a pay-per-click site
this is imperative).
Ftp and html pages work, and as I mentioned, the asp pages have worked and
do work in a fashion - so it may not be a scripts issue in IIS.
have put up a test.asp page that sporadically works (eg three times out of
five over the last ten minutes)

Really have no ideas, just really wondering if these symptoms ring any bells

Many thanks for any help in advance

Johnny

Re: .asp pages unable to load

JohnnyD wrote:
> Rather a tentative question as I am not the webmaster in question. Our
> website is an asp dynamic website running its pages via access
> databases for raw data, security and logs.

This may be nothing to do with it, but are the Access files getting large?
Are there many users trying to access them at the same time?

Andrew

Re: .asp pages unable to load

Thanks for replying Andrew,
Not that large (they have been twice the size in the past) and I suspect
that we are the only web that he is hosting on that server (hence his
ability to restart it a couple of times a day)
There are, however, quite a lot of accessees on the site at any one time -
this has grown due to a good presence on the search engine - but the
databases were built for that. might it be something to do with a Windows
Server ACL setting re number of simultaneous accesses to a file (ie one of
the databases)?

Johnny

"Andrew Morton" wrote in message
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> JohnnyD wrote:
> > Rather a tentative question as I am not the webmaster in question. Our
> > website is an asp dynamic website running its pages via access
> > databases for raw data, security and logs.
>
> This may be nothing to do with it, but are the Access files getting large?
> Are there many users trying to access them at the same time?
>
> Andrew
>
>