Hello all,

I'd like to tweek my dotnetnuke 4.05.01 installation to be faster.  I have about 250+ pages. Most of these are IFrames which point to html files. The reason for using IFrames is that the HTML files were generated from our Product Catalog which is in Excel.  My website uses some flash and javascript.  I am on a shared hosting plan with web.com. I am considering moving to gate.com in the future which seems to be a little faster. Logging isn't very important and database space is limited.  Any ideas to speed things up?

The following modules are installed:

[Skin Objects], Account Login, Blog, MGMBugreport(my custom module), DnnSiteMap (Custom Module by Rainer Halanek), Documents, Events, Forum, Help, IFrame,  Repository, Repository Dashboard, Search Input, Search Results, Text/HTML, User Account

Page State Persistence: Select the mode to use to persist a page's state. This can either be a hidden field on the Page (Default) or in Memory (Cache).	Page Memory
Module Caching Method: Memory caching provides the most flexibility and is the highest performance method however it also consumes the most system resources. Disk caching is the least expensive on resources but does not offer any flexibility.	Memory Disk
Performance Setting: Select how to optimize performance.	Clear Cache
Authenticated Cacheability: Sets the Cache-Control HTTP header value for authenticated users.
Compression Setting: Select the type of Http Compression to use.
Use Whitespace Filter: Select this to remove excess white space from the response sent to the client - this will result in a smaller download (10-15%) but it will make the html less readable.

Control Panel: You can specify an alternative control to use for Page Administration
Site Log Storage: Select the storage location for the Site Log	Database File System
Site Log Buffer (Items): Enter the number of Items in the Site Log Buffer
Site Log History (Days): Enter the number of Days of activity to keep in the Site Log
Disable Users Online? You can optionally disable the Users Online feature
Users Online Time (Minutes): Enter the length of the Users Online Buffer
Auto-Unlock Accounts After (Minutes): After an account is locked out due to unsuccessful login attempts, it can be automatically unlocked with a successful authentication after a certain period of time has elapsed. Enter the number of minutes to wait until the account can be automatically unlocked. Enter "0" to disable the auto-unlock feature.
File Upload Extensions: Enter the allowable file extensions (separated by commas)	swf,jpg,jpeg,jpe,gif,bmp,png,doc,xls,ppt,pdf,txt,xml,xsl,css,zip,html,htm,
Skin Upload Permission: Select whether Skin Upload is restricted to the "Host" Account or can be done by Site Administrators	Host Portal
Scheduler Mode: The Timer Method maintains a separate thread to execute scheduled tasks while the worker process is alive. Alternatively, the Request Method executes tasks when HTTP Requests are made. You can also disable the scheduler by selecting Disabled.
Enable Event Log Buffer? Checking this will cause log entries to be logged to memory and then purged regularly to the data store. Unchecking it will cause log entries to be written immediately.
Help URL: Enter the URL for the Online Help you will be providing. If you leave the entry blank then no Online Help will be offered for the Admin/Host areas of DotNetNuke.
Enable Module Online Help: You can enable or disable the Online Help Action Menu for Modules. If enabled, you will need to provide the Help Url for the module, in the Module Definitions, although this may have been provided by the developer of the module.
Auto-Sync File System? Check this box to automatically synchronize the file system.

 

I'm only using IFrames for our online catalog. I wrote a vb.net program to convert our catalog from excel to html. It then automatically sends those file by ftp to the wbserver in place of the old files.  When we make a change to the catalog we run this program and the website is the up to date.  I guess I could use an Text/HTML module and update it in the database.  I will change Enable Module Online Help and Auto-sync file system to off.  What does the Auto-sync file system option do?

Thanks,

Sean

I would also change page state persistence to actually be page....yes the page will be a bit bigger, but I have had quite a few problems with keeping state in memory, resulting in errors or high memory usage.

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