I have a DNN 5.5 site on dev server with win2003 on it.  It's performance is fine.  I deploy this to production by copying the site to the prod server still pointing to dev database, it's visibly slow.  The prod web server is win2008.  I run db trace and when I do simple things like login/logout from prod DNN web site, the db calls were reasonably fast and between the last db call to when the page actually renders, there's a lapse of about 30 seconds there.  This is of course unacceptable.

So I develop a non-DNN test web app to hit the same dev db, deploy on prod web server, it's fast.  I guess I can conclude that it's due to DNN framework?  How can I make it faster?  it's not even "put side" like others have said.  The site is well alive and doesn't need to be waken up b/c I test login / logout constantly and if it's low, it should only be on the first page hit when the site is waking up.