Hello,
I've had a lot of trouble with dnn in the past but now (apparently when using windows 7) it's been a nightmare. I've been getting the "site unavailable, comeback later" error a lot and didn't have any idea of why, until I spoke to a dnn guru who's a friend of mine. Apparently, using the express string is a roulette, since u don't know when the application is gonna crash cuz it doesn't connect to the DB. I find this ridicolous cuz the option is there and I never had to create the DB for regular configuration before.
MSG TO DNN DEVELOPERS: IF IT'S NOT RELIABLE, WHY PUT IT THERE????
Last week, it happened to me twice and then I thought it was just the computer or something, but searching on forums I found that it happens a lot. You can understand my frustration, since I went to a client's today to show them my proposal and the damn thing didn't work, it was the worst shame ever. I'd spent the last 2 weeks working on it and it just randomly started to crash with this error. After I got home, it was working fine after a couple of attempts.
I'm seriously thinking on switching to joomla, since I've never heard this type of complaint on the users.
Can someone who has experienced this tell me why the hell this happens so randomly???? one day I can't connect, the other I can (without touching anything on IIS or sql server). My friend told me to create a new db and to backup/restore from the old one, but changing the string to the "not express config" and it should work fine....
Does anyone have another suggestions still using the same DB and string config? or definately DNN express installation simply sucks???