I agree with Paolo. I'm new to DNN and I'm not a programmer, but I would be happy to understand why this is happening...
It seems that every DNN install that I've made is slow on the first page laod ( even if the website does not have a big database). I have DNN sites installed on different servers, but even if I installed one of them on a "superserver" with backbone bandwith ( and there are only 3 DNN websites installed on that server ), the home page is still loading slow ( 12 - 20 seconds ).
After the home page is loaded, everything goes smooth, for a while. If there are no visitors on the website, the next home page load will be slow again.
Is it something somewhere that turns the website "to sleep" if it is not accessed for a while ( some kind of a timer )? It seems that if I have some visitors on the website for a while ( I ment the website is accessed and has visitors ), the home page is loading much faster ( sometime even instantly ). Somebody told me that he fixed this problem by seting up a ping to the website address every 15 minutes.
I would be very happy to know if there is a way to make the home page load faster, on a DNN website which has visitors occasionaly. I am awared of the fact that this is a dynamic platform and it's pulling it's data from the DB, so it will take a while to load, depending on the amount of data which needs to be used on the forst load, but after I made some searches on the net I realised that there are DNN portals that are laoding instantly ( almost ).
Thanks a lot for your help....