Hosting ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 applications on an IIS Server is not really a very difficult job in and of itself. But keeping the servers serving all those pages all the time, over multiple time zones, to millions of users worldwide can have quite a lot of its own kind of challenges.

In this article and some of the others which will follow soon, I will try to keep my focus on some basic knowledge of debugging tools and techniques. The reason why you should make yourself aware of these things beforehand (assuming everything is working fine on your server right now) is because this will save you some precious time in case your production website is down.