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Need a little help with a shitty website (self.shitty_sysadmin)

submitted 1 year ago by flambonkscious to c/shitty_sysadmin

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So, I spent most of the day troubleshooting a website that drastically slows down when 'a browser looks at it funny'...

Usually it behaves fine - it's not the volume of requests, my teammates think it's something about the kind of requests. But they're struggling to get the logging properly configured.

I'm an EUC engineer (p.o.s. website requires IE11 and ActiveX controls - yay healthcare!), so mostly helping on the sidelines, but I'm looking for some 'supportive' suggestions...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you have access to the servers backend, run a packet capture and see what requests are coming in.

[–] StrayingTimbuktu 4 points 1 year ago

With the way society is nowadays with websites I would remote into the mainframe and rm * -rf

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

p.o.s. website requires IE11 and ActiveX controls

Don't wanna be that guy, but: Burn it with fire.