Anyone who has visited this site within the last couple of days probably was greeted with a wonderful .Net runtime exception (Sql Server timeouts). It has taken me a couple of days to track down the issue with the virtual machine this site runs on, but I think I finally nailed it. The symptoms were strange though, and given that I’m much better at debugging code over troubleshooting server issues, it probably took me longer than it should have. The symptoms were: Tons of harddrive activity...