delay with serving asp.net mvc application - precompile?

Question

I am using discount asp to host an asp.net mvc 2.0 application. Unfortunately, every time I go to a page on the site, there is a long delay of 10-15 seconds. I am assuming that this is because the apppool is getting unloaded due to inactivity and once a request is received, the app has to reload which takes some time. How do I avoid this. Can I precompile an mvc application so this does not happen? or is there another way to avoid this?

Answer 1

There's a new feature in IIS 7.5 and ASP.NET 4.0 that allows you to auto-start applications. If you are using IIS 6 you could uncheck the Shutdown worker process after being idle for in the properties of the application pool but the first request when the server restarts will still be slow and AFAIK there's not much you can do about it: