I'm trying to decide between Community Server 2.0 and DNN 4 for a new community that I'm building. I'm on webHost4Life, and I've got both up and running. CS has some nice features, but its a total pain to skin &  add content into (besides blogs & forums), but it runs fast. DNN has all kindas of flexibility, but it seems much slower.
I assume this is due to how caching is implemented. I'm sure there is caching in DNN4, but it there a way to increase the time before it dumps the cache? I also recall something about previous versions unloading themselves after a period of inactivity - any truth to this?

Basically I'm looking for any pointers on how to make DNN 4 run faster (other than upgrading my hosting - CS runs just fine!). I'd hate to have to go with CS just because DNN can't be tweaked to run faster.

Thanks for any advice

[UPDATE]
Skip it - I'm running with Community Server - DNN was unusably slow. Maybe it was something in how WebHost4Life configured it (I did the automated install), but it just was not going to run on my current account, and since I want to keep the site ad-free, dropping $100/mo just to run DNN instead of CS did not seem reasonable.

Dave

It's slow for me too.  My web host is www.gate.com.  DNN is in a subfolder and I have to forward to it from my html home page.  It has taken up to 16 seconds to load the home page the first time.  Any tips on how to speed it up would be appreciated.