After I start IIS the very first page to load on my website takes about five
minutes (I think because the JIT compiler has to run through and compile all
the assemblies, and I guess some other initialisation work is performed).

Is there a way to get this initialisation to occur automatically without the
first visitor to the site experiencing this problem?

I don't know of one that you can do, but I also have little experience
actually working directly with IIS (I have never had access to anything
beyond what my webhosting service gives me access to). However, something
that you can obviously do is after you upload any modified files, visit the
site yourself (in other words, pretend to be a visitor) and then all your
customers will not have to experience the delay of being the first one.
There may be a way to do what you are asking, I have heard of something
called precompiling, but I do not know how to do that for ASP.NET Web
Applications, and I am not sure how much configuration in IIS is involved.
--
Nathan Sokalski
njsokalski@hotmail.com
http://www.nathansokalski.com/

"Jason Madison" <jason.madison@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:37B1D454-11DC-45F1-8C6C-8CE14C831D56@microsoft.com...
> After I start IIS the very first page to load on my website takes about
> five minutes (I think because the JIT compiler has to run through and
> compile all the assemblies, and I guess some other initialisation work is
> performed).
>
> Is there a way to get this initialisation to occur automatically without
> the first visitor to the site experiencing this problem?
>

How is the site deployed ? Not compiled at all or precompiled ?

Is this really 5 minutes or just "a bit slow" ? The first hit likely take
some time here also but not 5 minutes... (I remember to have seen an issue
about ASP.NET accounts such as
http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesche/archi...lication.aspx).


--
Patrice

"Jason Madison" <jason.madison@btinternet.com> a écrit dans le message de
groupe de discussion : 37B1D454-11DC-45F1-8C6C-8CE14C831D56@microsoft.com...
> After I start IIS the very first page to load on my website takes about
> five minutes (I think because the JIT compiler has to run through and
> compile all the assemblies, and I guess some other initialisation work is
> performed).
>
> Is there a way to get this initialisation to occur automatically without
> the first visitor to the site experiencing this problem?
>