Hey guys,

With our hosting company (fasthosts - who are rubbish and i we never get a reply from them) , we have about 10 sites hosted , on one of our virtual servers we have our own web site and whenever you call an asp page it give you a 500 error then you refresh it and it works, this only happens when you dont call the page for a while , like a few hours , its like when you do refresh it , it works fine till it goes back to sleep again and stops working till its woken up with a refresh , any ideas??

cheers

Gaz

;)

Hi gaz

Sounds like you might be suffering from a little known error called ASP_0149 Application_Restarted.

Check your server logs for this error. there are several suggested fixes ( if you can get your host to listen up ) including service packs from MS and use of particular anti-virus software on the host.

SteveLewis

Thanks mate

Ill give it a try, although the chances of fasthosts listening to anything is nil. But its good to know its a known problem. I think ive seen that error somewhere before, ill check the logs.

Cheers

Gaz

NT4 / Win2k?

Only goes to show (once again) that ASP is, well, crap!

Have you ever considered switching to PHP4? Depending on the complexitiy of your web site, it should be relatively painless to rewrite it, and you'd also get all the advantages that PHP has to offer.

Its a win 2k server hosted by the crappy fasthosts and it only does it on one of our domains, i dont write the code or anything , im just trying to sort the problem, dunno about php4 , whats that all about? Im sure i can fix this prob but cant find anything on the microsoft site.

cheers

gaz

avara: Only goes to show (once again) that ASP is, well, crap!

Have you ever considered switching to PHP4? Depending on the complexitiy of your web site, it should be relatively painless to rewrite it, and you'd also get all the advantages that PHP has to offer.

As it happens to be ASP is not "crap" i've never had problems with it.

And for Gaz, unfirtunately mate fasthosts don't know how to configure there servers at all. try a different host. I've never had problems with ASP at all.

Gaz

If you can't find anything on the MS KnowledgeBase ( which isn't uncmmon ) then go to http://groups.google.com/ and search the newsgroups for what you are looking for. there's usually some bright spark who has found the answer.