Hi All,

I am trying to make my site faster faster fastest.
I have read so many different things (see references below) but I would like to review all the options and get your opinion on them.

1.
Site Tweaks
http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs...-fast.aspx
Seems like a great way to work these things out.

2.
Keep Alive Tools
I have read so many different tools to do this, and I would like to know the best one.
a. PageBlaster from Snapsis - http://www.montastic.com (Site monitor)
c. Keep Alive - http://www.dnn-modules.com/Default....x?tabid=84 (Module)
d. Keep Alive Forever - http://www.keepaliveforever.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx (Site Monitor)

I am currently running "c" Keep Alive, however it only makes the front end pages load fast, when I click "login" it takes a long time to load this simple login module, very frustrating.

I would like a Keep Alive that loads all the modules (including Core Functions) on a regular basis.  I don't see how visiting site.com/keepalive.aspx does that, surely it needs to login and visit all the pages to keep them fresh and in memory.
Has anyone used PageBlaster from Snapsis, that one looks good.

3.
Hosting
According to http://www.keepaliveforever.com/ PowerDNN is the best DNN host around, with lightning fast speeds and systems tweaked to run DNN.
I am running on webhost4life which appears slow to me, but I am not sure as I am still developing so recompilation is happening at the moment fairly often, but it isn't far away from launch, so I am interested in maybe moving host for my production environment.

I appreciate your thoughts on these topics.

References:
http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/forumid/4/postid/13240/view/topic/Default.aspx
http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/forumid/13/postid/12062/view/topic/Default.aspx
http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/forumid/14/postid/15133/view/topic/Default.aspx
http://www.dnncreative.com/Forum/tabid/88/forumid/13/postid/5255/view/topic/Default.aspx
http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs...-fast.aspx
http://www.keepaliveforever.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

Hello,

Using a keep alive or pinging service is a good step when you have low traffic to the site, once you have higher traffic you do not need it.

I personally use www.pingdom.com it pings my sites, but also provides a report and a SMS whenever one of the sites goes down, so I prefer this type of service as I can keep track of my site uptime as well.

Snapsis PageBlaster is a good recommendation for compressing page sizes and if you do not want to spend any money, enabling compression in the host settings does make a noticeable difference.

Each step you take increases the speed of your site, so it's a matter of taking a step at a time, those 2 are the main ones for speeding up.

Then I would look at the skin and implement a clean pure CSS skin as this can make a big difference as well.