>Perfect! The other advantage of this new server is that it runs IIS 6.0, so I am able to play with the settings Rick mentions. Now how did I know Rick Strahl would eventually be part of the answer? *smile*
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>Thanks everyone for all responses and education!

You're welcome. I can't control the IIS settings on my webhost, so keepaliveforever is a simple solution. My hosting company approved of this approach over other possibilities. As long as it rings the doorbell once every ten minutes or longer, it's fine by them.

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>>>Thanks for the response! I agree, it is probably in the config somewhere, but I sure can't find it. There is stuff on Session State -- is that it? I don't want to mess with any timeouts without knowing what I am doing first... But you are exactly right -- I want something that keeps my pages/site "alive", even if it does cost a bit of server performance overall. This is a nice server dedicated only to this right now, so I think we can trade off some efficiency in order to not disrupt work-flow with random pauses on the front-end...
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