Does anyone know if I can restart a specific website within IIS 6 using the command line.
I don't want to use a blanket IISReset /restart command if I can avoid it.
I have a site that has an issue and is maxing out the server, I need to find a fix for it but in the meantime I also want to sleep so I'd like to just restart it every 10 minutes overnight to nurse it through.
Sounds like you actually want to recycle an Application pool rather than stop/start a website.
To do this you can use the IISAPP.vbs utility:
cscript c:\windows\system32\iisapp.vbs /a "My AppPool" /r
You can run the utility with a /? flag for full usage details and some sample commandlines.
If you really want to start/stop a website you can use the ADSUTIL.vbs utility:
cscript c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs STOP_SERVER W3SVC/1
cscript c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs START_SERVER W3SVC/1
For more information on ADSUTIL.vbs please see this page :