As far as the original question is concerned i dont think DNN is a professional CMS. If you want real CMS features you are better of with other apps. DNN is a great portal management application with a number of CMS features but it does not par up to the real CMS apps around. I have used DNN for about 200+ webapplications as backend using either custom modules dnn styl or our own development framework within DNN. However If clients demand real CMS features like workflow various admins, a super admin that can override changes that other admins made and more. We have a custom cms and use dnn to show that data on the portal

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Choosing a hosting provider that specializes in DNN would probably make all the difference in the world. From my experience there are quite a few hosting providers that offer DNN but very few that take the time to learn it. If you search the posts here in the DNN forums you will find many posts where one of these hosters said it was DNN's problem but the real problem was that they didn't know what they were doing and/or had way too many sites on one server. Sounds like you have both problems.

I use PowerDNN (www.powerdnn.com). They are a DNN benefactor and their owner is a lead on one of the DNN projects. I have never had a problem with the speed of their servers. Their support is above and beyond - just had to use it over the holiday weekend for something that had nothing to do with them - I left the login info to a new site on my work computer. Another choice if you have some experience on the server side of things and want to mess with it would be 3essentials.com. There have been some positive posts about them.  Personally, I would rather pay a little extra and have somebody I trust take care of the server side so I can concentrate on other things.

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