hi, I am really new to dnncreative and I really do like it dnn alot.

I am currently targeting customers from Taiwan for my website and I really do want my site hosted in the US cos it is a lot cheaper.

I just have a question that bothers me alot lately. I have a DNN website hosted in US. the problem is that when my friend try to connect to it from Taiwan, the initial waiting for server time is like 7 -8 secs. After the first load, the site is pretty fast.

I really don't get it. When I connect from New Zealand, the browser will wait for server about 2 secs and then load the page which is much better.  I mean the distance of the 2 locations ain't that much different.

people told me that the reason is that DNN site is being compiled after the ASP.NET worker process has restarted. So I tried requesting a page on the site every few mins and have my friend load the site from Taiwan to test it. But this just doesn't work.

Another possibility is the location, but I have a another simple asp.net page on the same host and it loads really fast from Taiwan or NZ.

is there any other way that I could reduce this initial first load of the site?


thanks in advance.
Kevin

Look into "keep alive" services to keep your site loaded.  ASP's default behavior is to unload the site after 20 minutes of inactivity.  That is the compile issue and is common to asp.net websites, not just DotNetNuke.

But, if the site loads slowly from Taiwan and not slowly from New Zealand, I would suspect that network connectivity is an issue.  How does it load from the US?

You will also want to check to make sure that you have done everything that you can for performance.  I always refer to Mitchel Sellers' blog for advice on this topic.  See mitchelsellers.com.  You can also look here: DotNetNuke Performance and Http Compression.

Hello,

You may also want to have a read of:
Performance Tips - Fast Site - Keep Alive Tools - Hosting

well, I have tried all that but it has no affect.

It does load okay from US so it must be connectivity issue.