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Thread: Question about initial load

  1. 11-03-2009, 10:36 AM #1
    chainsaw is offline Junior Member
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    The site I am helping setup takes approximately 20 seconds to load initially.

    http://www.meerschaummerchant.com

    I am not sure where to start. I've removed some navigational elements from the skin, but that doesn't seem to be helping the issue. We are on a business plan with activehost. Our old site that runs under salescart software (salescart.com) for http://www.aaameerschaum.com loads in about a second. I do realize that it's not running ASPdotnet.

    Any ideas?
  2. 11-03-2009, 11:41 AM #2
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    That's a common issue with .NET applications. The .NET platform 'sleeps' any apps that are idle for a while, so when you first hit the site it's essentially starting up again. There are a couple of things you can do - precompile the site, or set up keep-alives that hit the site every so often and keep it 'awake'. Most hosts offer a service to do that.
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  3. 11-11-2009, 06:36 AM #3
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    Thank you for the info. I talked to my provider and they can setup a site monitor for a relatively inexpensive monthly charge that should help this load issue.