Can we tell our hosting companies anything to help with the loading speed problems with DNN, even 4.4 and 4.5.1.  Godaddy sites loaded almost instantly where I am at now, and on another I left the initial load is very slow.  Once you get onto the site it is fine.  I have turned compression on (something I didnt want to do, seems this might cause problems).  

My research says this might acutally be something about .net/frameworks, not sure. Any advice I could share with the hosting site, would be appreciated, they seem willing to listen.

 

 

And if you are the first user accessing the site, it might need to 'start up', so you might want to try keeping your site up by using some keep alive tool which ping's or accesses your site every couple of minutes.

The best bet to keep the inital load time down is to use a keep alive service, but it has to be a service that does an HTTP Get and not just a ping of your site.

I use www.host-tracker.com for my site and it works just fine.  (And is free!)

This is as mentioned above due to JIT compiling with the .NET framework.

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