DotNetNuke Performance: Keeping Your Site Alive

By Andy Stephenson
June 2011

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to reduce your DotNetNuke site load time and show you how to take advantage of the services offered by keepaliveforever.com

One of the most common complaints from Webmasters who use DotNetNuke and various other ASP.NET Applications is the long initial load time after a period of inactivity.

In order to keep your site constantly running, there are two easy ways around this: either run a keepalive service on your local computer, or, use a cloud-based KeepAlive service.

Keepaliveforever.com is a website that will browse your website at regular intervals to ensure your site ASP.NET worker process does not shut down. In addition to simulating real visits to your site, KeepAliveForever also records your sites performance and can also alert you if your website goes down.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Registering your site and how to interpret site statistics

  • Explanation of the ASP.NET worker process
  • Registering on keepaliveforever.com
  • Instructing the service to monitor your website
  • Testing keepaliveforever can access your site
  • How to view your site statistics
  • How to interpret your site statistics
Time length: 5min 55secs

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Video 2 - Visit Status, Content Monitoring

  • Understanding the visit status
  • Introduction to content monitoring
  • How to check for content that should be on the page
  • Receiving the ‘your website is down’ email
  • Interpreting the email
  • Interpreting the visit failure reports
  • How to check for content that should not be on the page
Time length: 6min 51secs
Total time Length: 12min 46secs

Comments

comments or questionsIf you have any comments or questions for this tutorial, please ask them in this Keeping your site alive forum thread.

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