Upgrading from PWS

[Donar]

Yes, still running Personal Web Server :)Now that I have my first experiences with my web server, I'd like to know what the best option would be for me to upgrade to a "real" web-server with some more advanced functions. Main reason being that at times I have 10 simultaneous visitors now, and all those see is the ugly "Page can not be displayed" page.I run Win 2000 Pro, and of course ASP Scripts must be supported :)What is your advice?Regards//Herbert

[Mr.Jay]

Buy a windows hosting package.Or if you would like to run it on your own computer then use IIS

[aspnetguy]

If you want to run it on your own computer you will have to upgrade to a windows server (2000 or 2003) as Win2000 and WinXP pro have a 10 concurrent user limit on IIS.If you are able to switch from ASP to PHP you could use Apache and not have ot fork out money for Windows Server.

[Donar]

Thanks for your answers.I might upgrade to win 2000 server then, if I can get ahold of a not too expensive copy.However, I noticed the following: My scripts execute fast (some ADO involved, but still far below 1 sec), and there is no need to maintain a session between the scripts. That is, the connections may terminate instantly after the end of a script.However, I notice, that the PWS does not let go of the connections (at least the number of connections won't change for a fairly long time). Since this is what prevents others from accessing my scripts, I would be fine if I could get rid of the connection. Session.Abandon does /not/ do the trick: PWS won't let them go. I was thinking that the ServerVariable HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE was the culprit (?), but if so, how would I change that default of 300 seconds to something far below that?Or if it is not the cause for that behaviour, what else should I change?Thanks very much, folks (you're my hope, I come from googling for like 3 hours now )Regards//HerbertEdit:Well, I found it:IIS, rightclick on webserver, WWW, Edit, uncheck HTTP KeepaliveRestart IIS (with it PWS goes down and up again)Et voilà: Number of connections almost always remains on 0 zero now.Though I'd report it so that others in this situation can make use of it. Saves me another year or so from upgrading :)//Herbert

[justsomeguy]

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[Donar]

Appreciated. Bookmarked and DLed. However, atm they are mostly 0 and rarely 1 connections: it would require like several visitors accessing my pages within the same 100 ms in order to substanially increase that number. (Compared with the kept-alive HTTP, with the same number of visitors, or even less for that matrer, half of them received the overload page.)As soon as I see the connections approach 5, I will give it a try. (Should it not work I won't blame you, hehe, after all, I still have the original disks to reinstall )Thanks, and regardsPS: The files are not liked by my AntiVir.