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8/15/2010 4:39 PM
 
Cody Walbaum


Joined: 7/7/2006
Posts: 207
I agree with Tony on the performance side.  This site itself is a bit slow in response.  Sites like youtube, facebook, and other shopping websites are just flat out fast.   Type in address and it shows up on your screen.  A DNN site takes a few seconds to get it to show up.  Although once it shows up it loads everything fast.  I believe the other sites load up parts first so you can see it before all is loaded.  But still all parts generally are loaded faster than this site gets loaded.  

I did have a software problem I believe making it horribly slow.  I have fixed that and it runs a lot better but there is still a few seconds you have to wait to even know if you typed the address in right.
 
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8/15/2010 5:14 PM
 
Greg Brown


Joined: 6/14/2006
Posts: 669
Come on - you can't seriously be comparing DNN.com to YouTube and Facebook.  Those sites are spending MILLIONS on hardware alone.  

DNN can be slightly slower that others depending on the application but most of the time there is a good reason why you are not seeing good performance. DNN is a little more difficult to set up. Spend $20 for a SHARED DNN install on POWERDNN and see how fast your site is. Mine loads in less than 2 seconds.

One area where DNN.com does usually have performance problems is the forums. This isn't a problem with the framework but an issue with the forum module. If you go to any of the tabs under Products, Development, Support, Partners, etc. you will see the pages load very fast.  Chris has been making a lot of progress on the forum module of late but it is still a little slow loading.
 
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8/15/2010 6:03 PM
 
Justin Jovic


www.constructpoint.com
Joined: 9/15/2007
Posts: 598
tony bonn wrote:
that's bogus advice about throwing hardware and software upgrades at the problem. every dnn site i visit - including this one - has painfully slow response time. i waited at least 30-45 seconds for the login screen to load on dnn. that never happens on other sites where i login. 

i am sure that the vendors of dnn are using maximum hardware for this site yet it is still very slow. moving from page to page can be take many seconds. i never ever experience this problem on normal sites.

i know the moderator thinks i am here to bash the product as he has deleted a number of my posts but there are inumerable postings on this topic - most of which have not yielded much satisfaction.

clicking return after a module has installed takes me about 30 seconds. to do what?

 When you install a new module into DNN  and click the "return" link the entire website is taken as source code and JITTED by the ASP.NET CLR into compiled code.  This is the same thing that happens if you have a low traffic site.  Your application will eventually time out in the App Pool if not used and get flushed. THen when someone finally comes to your site the entire site will need to be spun up on the web server.  Once past that initial compilation the site should fly since its running as compiled assemblies.  If this is happening on your site you should look into using a keep alive service (pings your site every few minutes to make sure it stays alive in the app pool).  Look at hosting with someone like PowerDNN.  Their hosting is really great and sites on their servers fly.
 
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8/16/2010 9:49 AM
 
Carlos Rodriguez

www.almacigo.com
Joined: 6/10/2003
Posts: 615
Just my .02.

I think that the key to performance is memory, regardless of CPU speed.  If you have just one server for SQL and IIS, with less than 3GB, it is going to be trashing to disk a lot, which you see as slow DNN response.

Carlos
 
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1/27/2011 2:38 AM
 
AndriaD


crypticsites.com
Joined: 9/16/2009
Posts: 16
Joiseystud wrote: ...this is the same thing that happens if you have a low traffic site.  Your application will eventually time out in the App Pool if not used and get flushed. THen when someone finally comes to your site the entire site will need to be spun up on the web server.  Once past that initial compilation the site should fly since its running as compiled assemblies.  If this is happening on your site you should look into using a keep alive service (pings your site every few minutes to make sure it stays alive in the app pool).

 
I'd really love to use some kind of keep alive, because the load time after being away from it for a while is just excruciating.  And I see that in the root dir of the site, there's a file called "KeepAlive.aspx" -- but how do I use it?  I don't see any setting in web.config for keepalive, which is where it's defined in a different ASP.NET CMS I've used.  I searched the whole superuser PDF, I've searched the forum, but I don't find one blessed word about using that KeepAlive file.

Can someone please, please enlighten me?
Thx!!
Andria
 
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