<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item><title>DotNetNuke, Slow Page Loads</title><description>Running DotNetNuke?&amp;nbsp; Finding it incredibly slow the first time you load a page?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;What happens is ASP.NET unloads the DotNetNuke application after a period of inactivity, and then on the next visit, recompiles the entire site.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Strangely, this leads to terrible performance on a slow site, but good performance on a busy site.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So the solution is to make your site busy.&amp;nbsp; :)&amp;nbsp; Or, at least to convince ASP.NET that your site is busy.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;An easy way to do this is to grab wget.exe, and create a batch file that does a "wget http://www.mysite.com" every 5 minutes.&amp;nbsp; This resets the ASP.NET idle counter to keep your site from being unloaded.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You can get a Win32 wget.exe &lt;A href="http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:09 GMT</pubDate></item>