I am currently working on a small website, my own actually, on a shared webhost. I am the only with access to the website and I was suprised to see the "Application started at ..." log entry several times each day. It is quite annoying to have to wait for the page to load the cache that one time. I have not had this problem before and I am guessing its because of the shared webhost I am using now.
Any good advise? Maybe I could ask the webhost to do something?
You need more visitors :). When your site is not visited in a certain timeperiod it shuts down automatically. I think your webhoster sets a small time period top save resources. I know Webstekker in the Netherlands does that also.
Exactly. It's an IIS setting and not specific to umbraco. There's no harm done by the site stopping and then starting again. Though it does take a moment or two for a site to start up and that may not be something you want to avoid so that your site is always responsive to visitors. You could use one of the free 'ping' services to visit your site every 10, 15, or 20 minutes to keep it running. The default timeout is 20 minutes in IIS but you should check with your host to be sure they haven't changed it.
Log: "Application started" several times each day
Hello,
I am currently working on a small website, my own actually, on a shared webhost. I am the only with access to the website and I was suprised to see the "Application started at ..." log entry several times each day. It is quite annoying to have to wait for the page to load the cache that one time. I have not had this problem before and I am guessing its because of the shared webhost I am using now.
Any good advise? Maybe I could ask the webhost to do something?
Hi,
You need more visitors :). When your site is not visited in a certain timeperiod it shuts down automatically. I think your webhoster sets a small time period top save resources. I know Webstekker in the Netherlands does that also.
Hope it helps you,
Richard
Hi Richard,
Ah that explains it since I am the only one accessing the site - its still in development.
So as long as requests are made to the site it won't shut down?
Exactly. It's an IIS setting and not specific to umbraco. There's no harm done by the site stopping and then starting again. Though it does take a moment or two for a site to start up and that may not be something you want to avoid so that your site is always responsive to visitors. You could use one of the free 'ping' services to visit your site every 10, 15, or 20 minutes to keep it running. The default timeout is 20 minutes in IIS but you should check with your host to be sure they haven't changed it.
cheers,
doug.
Hi,
Indeed if youre site is visited more frequently you don't have these issues.
Cheers,
Richard
Hello again,
Thanks both of you. I hope the "problem" will solve it self once I go live or else I'll just have to take a look at increasing the timeout.
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