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4/6/2015 1:14 PM
 
Chris Onyak


www.OnyakTech.com
Joined: 8/27/2003
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Barry Turney wrote:

I can tell from experience DO NOT use Windows Azure to host DNN... we are actually in the process of reverting our production instance off of the DNN Cloud Services (which was drive by Windows Azure) because the performance is HORRIBLE.  We have struggled with it for almost 2 years with DNN making tweaks here and there to try to help it.. nothing we did worked... plus, on this platform... if  we made any configuration changes or installed a new module... the site would have to restart... and it would take 30-45 minutes for the site to become responsive again.  Needless to say avoid the DNN Cloud offering all together.. 

We are reverting install back over to a RackSpace server... which with our testing seems to be performing really well... 

 

Barry the issues you had must have been specific to the DNN Cloud Services and the requirements of your site, I have been installing and working with sites on Azure VM servers for a few years now and the only time I see performance problems is if the sites are on Test Level servers (A0 servers).  

I have worked with sites that take an hour to restart. Those issues are usually caused by large DNN installations that require custom performance settings in the web.config and the IIS App pools.  It can also be caused by too many site restarts with a bad configuration that can lead to multiple versions of assemblies in the ASP.Net cache.   After a few web.config setting changes, IIS app pool configurations and adding a batch or PS script to clear the ASP.Net cache out every night you should see those issues go away.

 


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4/6/2015 1:37 PM
 
Barry Turney


Joined: 4/29/2013
Posts: 6
Chris Onyak wrote:
Barry the issues you had must have been specific to the DNN Cloud Services and the requirements of your site, I have been installing and working with sites on Azure VM servers for a few years now and the only time I see performance problems is if the sites are on Test Level servers (A0 servers).  

I have worked with sites that take an hour to restart. Those issues are usually caused by large DNN installations that require custom performance settings in the web.config and the IIS App pools.  It can also be caused by too many site restarts with a bad configuration that can lead to multiple versions of assemblies in the ASP.Net cache.   After a few web.config setting changes, IIS app pool configurations and adding a batch or PS script to clear the ASP.Net cache out every night you should see those issues go away.

 

It may very well have been specific to the DNN Cloud Services.. we had absolutely no control of the app pool configuration... when it comes to restarting... the 30-45 minute restart time was exclusive to the DNN instance running in the DNN Cloud Services... our dev/testing box runs on a VM in our local cluster and when we have to load a new module to that instance it restarts in a matter of 10-15 seconds... you hardly know  it restarted... and we get the same experience when restarting on the RackSpace server...  DNN has in fact ditched the Cloud instance that we were initially on (I assume because they have figured out it wasn't a great solution) and they now offer a DNN OnDemand service... which is supposed to allocate additional resources as needed... I did some cursory testing of that offering as well.. and really didn't see any performance improvements with that offering either...  that's why we just decided to go with RackSpace.  

The performance issues we had with the DNN Cloud Services offering wasn't just with the restarting of the site.  We purchased their Evoq Social module last year and had to cancel our plans to roll it out in our site because the page load performance was so bad (it would take 6-10 seconds to load a page). 
 
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6/22/2015 4:10 AM
 
Matt Robson


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There are so many companies that provide solid inexpensive web hosting with great service, I recommend: http://Hostforlife.eu DNN hosting.
The real difference comes if you need a specific feature, or if you need a certain type of support or so on. But generally you will be happy if you pick a large host that has 24/7 support and a good reputation like that hosting company.
 
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