There may be some basic network tuning that has to be done to the server to handle all the requests (like setting the request queue length to something reasonable). Can you point them to the numerous IIS tuning KB articles at MS? http://msdn.microsoft.com/ search for "IIS tuning" sgd -- work: http://www.ti3.com/ non: http://thinksafely.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: McCreath_David [mailto:McCreath_David at xmail.asd.k12.ak.us] > Hm. I don't think they're using a DB backend period, but that's a good > thought. Would that actually throw a 403.9, though? I'd think > that would > show an Access error on the page... >