After a period of inactivity the DNN installation will shutdown and then startup again on access. You can view this process in your event viewer (admin-->event viewer) in your admin directory (blue events).

A couple of ways I have tried to prevent this is:

Aricie's DNN Pace Maker (http://www.aricie.net/eshop/Refonte/Modules/DnnPaceMaker/tabid/180/Default.aspx): This program resides on your webhost and activates every 20 to 30 minutes to prevent DNN shutdown. I am having a small problem with it throwing exceptions but working with them on trying to get it fixed. Other than the exceptions it seems to work well.

DNN Keep Alive from Renegade Minds (http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=71): Works OK but is installed on your local machine so when you are shut down your DNN installation will revert to the application shutdown and startup sequence.

Companies that will ping your site every 20 to 30 minutes: This would be the best solution but it comes with a price.

There are others and if you google the DNN site with "keepalive +DotNetNuke site:dotnetnuke.com" I think you will find a lot of threads on this topic.

Good Luck,

Mike

I recently started a small business and was experiencing the same issue as you. The load times sucked and I was afraid it may make my customers think twice about using my IT services if my stuff doesn't even work well. I was also afraid they might think the page was down and close it before it had a chance to open. I finally found a program that seems to be doing the trick. It's called YAKA (Yet Another Keep Alive program). I bought it from SnowCovered.com for $4.95 (allows you to use it on one website). You can buy other versions on there if you need it for more than one site. Here is the direct link to it: http://www.snowcovered.com/snowcovered2/Default.aspx?tabid=295&search=YAKA

I installed it on my webserver and it has an option to install it as a service. It works well in my case! Good Luck!