Chapter 8. Is the Website Down? Tracking Down Web Server Problems

Although DNS and email are important Internet services that we interact with on a daily basis, web services tend to get much more of our direct attention. You may or may not immediately notice when someone else’s email server or DNS server is down, but if your favorite website is down, you will know almost instantly. Plus, many applications have moved from being run on local systems to being run on a web server accessed from your web browser instead. With so much riding on the health of web servers, you are likely to be responsible for one in some way, and it’s more important than ever to be able to troubleshoot web server problems.

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