>>Dmitry,
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>>>I have a small ASP.NET application used by a number of customers. Yesterday one of the customers brought up an issue that it takes too much time on loading the first page. I tested on my PC (I use IE 6.0) and I can see the issue. It takes about 10 seconds to load the first page the first time. The good news is that after the first time, each subsequent load of the page is very fast (almost instantaneous). So it seems like there is some kind of caching issue here. My question is, is it the caching on the web server or Internet Explorer? What can I do to improve the speed of loading the main page the very first time?
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>>>Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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>>Depending on how you are publishing your site, ASP still needs to compile the website files. I had a problem with my hosting provider as they had something causing the web server to restart every so often and it was causing my page to get recompiled. I ended up changing to another provider and now no problem. However if I make a change and upload new files it takes a long time the first time through but not after that. I usually do that myself so nobody else sees that.
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>>Are you setting your website to be updateable? This will make some difference also.
>>Tim
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>What is your host provider and actually I'd like a recommendation for a good host for a simple web site (not ASP.NET) ?
>

Naomi,
I am sure there are lots of suggestions but I am using this one right now.
http://www.webhostforasp.net/

The one I would steer clear of is:
http://www.ipowerweb.com/

But for a standard non asp website there are a lot less issues to be concerned with I would think.

Tim