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4/1/2007 9:38 PM
 
John Mitchell


www.snapsis.com
Joined: 4/18/2003
Posts: 3987

Yes it is a bit of a drag.
The blame should not be put entirely on ASP.Net though. 
DotNetNuke is a large application that really takes a lot longer than most ASP.Net applications to do the compile and initial load after it has been cycled down.

Still, it's not impossible to have a fast loading site. Check out mine:  http://www.snapsis.com

According to Alexa it loads faster than 78% of the sites on the internet http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=snapsis.com/  -- 1.1 seconds average, but on a fast connection it is always in the sub-second range.

 

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4/1/2007 11:33 PM
 
Carlos Rodriguez

www.almacigo.com
Joined: 6/10/2003
Posts: 615

JennaM:

I think you are making a really big deal of an issue that is very easy to resolve, and I can understand the frustration.  It is for that reason that when I decided to take care of the problem once and for all for the sites I host on my server, I wrote a little console program in VB.Net.  I then created a scheduled task to run that program every 15 minutes.  The program uses an old fashion INI file where I can enter the URLs I want to invoke.  In the case of DNN, I enter the URL as www.domain.com/keepalive.aspx.  Calling the Keepalive.aspx is very efficient for this purpose since it will keep the site in memory but only returns the date and time when invoked.  And you could run it from any PC or server that is up all the time since the call to the Web site is a standard HTTP call.

If you wish to use my program I can send it to you.  I have not put it on my site for download because it needs some cleaning up but it just works.  Let me know, if you haven't abandoned ASP.Net altogether that is...

Carlos

 
 
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4/2/2007 12:43 AM
 
Baatezu


Joined: 8/2/2005
Posts: 553
I'm probably not going to be adding a whole lot to this thread, but I'll give my solution, which seems to have been touched on, but in general brushed off.
I use SmarterPing to keep my site alive on a shared host.
There may be some ignorance on my part as to why it seems that everyone has been suggesting that SmarterPing is only an elegant solution for a dedicated server, but it works fantastic for me.
"Ahhh", says I. I get it. Where do you run SmarterPing?
I have a desktop at home that is always on and connected (firewalls, ect). So I just run SP on that. Yay for answering my own question.
My other method I use, in conjunction with SP; since SP has no reporting; is Siteping,com.
A free account lets you 'ping' 3 different sites, to keep them alive and check their status. It does do reporting and whatnot, which wasn't really wanted.

Just my thoughts.
 
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4/2/2007 1:26 AM
 
JMG34

Joined: 4/1/2007
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try ://www.keepaliveforever.com/, I think they might be what you are looking for.
 
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4/2/2007 11:04 AM
 
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I use host-tracker.com they do a great job, and it is free.  I also get uptime precentages as well as email notifications when the site is down.

It keeps the site alive as well!

-Mitchel Sellers
Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, DNN MVP
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