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.