smcculloch posted on May 21, 2005 04:33
In a previous post I talked about
modules not including source, one of those modules is called
Site Ping.
Site Ping will keep an ASP.NET application alive (in this case
DotNetNuke), by pinging your site repeatedly over a specific time period. This keeps your application in memory, instead of being taken out of memory due to inactivity. This happens quite regularly in a shared hosting environment or on a low traffic site.
However, you don't have to purchase this module to keep your site alive, I use some free software from
www.smartertools.com called
Smarter Ping.
"SmarterPing is a Windows Service built around solving this problem. SmarterPing will hit selected web pages at regular intervals to keep them alive on the server. For low-activity sites, and those using shared hosting, SmarterPing will keep sites running smoothly and quickly"
I have it running on my local machine at home with a bunch of my ASP.NET sites loaded into it's list of pingable sites and I must say it works great!