I want to create a server to host my dotnetnuke site. However it seems that it takes long to load the site. Can anyone tell me what are the best hosting settings or system requirments for a dotnetnuke hosting enviorment?

 

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Ruben

I just built a new server running on a pretty simple MSI mainboard with built-in video and LAN, an AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 512MB of RAM and a 160GB Ultra-ATA Hard Drive. I run SQL Server 2005 on the same box and it does fine! It is attached to a shared T1 at the home office of my employer in Campbell, California and I couldn't be happier with the performance.

I also have a simple staging server that I use for my own development tasks, and it is an ooooold HP Kayak XU Dual Pentium 2 400 machine, with 512 MB Ram and it also runs Windows Server 2003, and SQL Server 2000. It also serves up stuff plenty fast. So unless you are using an old Packard Bell 486, the speed problem is not likely your machine.

On the other hand, my "production" machine didn't cost more than $350, so I splurged and bought a 20-domain (lite) license for the HELM Hosting Control Panel ($199), which will be plenty for me. Now I have a serious hosting package that I can offer to my handful of users, and it justifies my having a dedicated server for my personal stuff, like www.RadWarrior.com; which is still in a state of flux until I can get help with a dnn 4.x upgrade issue. But that's the topic of another post altogether.

For what it's worth, I ran the new server locally on my own home network for about two months until I was sure it was stable, before moving it to the production environment. I believe that this is important for a server built on consumer parts. If I were to deploy an enterprise class application that demanded 99.9% uptime, I would spend the money on a couple of SCSI, RAID-based, dual xeon, professional hosting class Dell machines and co-locate them in a real datacenter with halon, 24 hour monitoring, redundant power, redundant network connections, etc...

But for my stupid little personal, self-aggrandizement blog sites, and those of my family and friends; the Athlon XP 2800+ on my office T1 rocks.