CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Cyberherbalist
Cyberherbalist

Reputation: 12319

Do ASP.NET Web Applications go "quiescent" after many hours of not being used?

We have a web application that is available 24/7, but since is a workday tool users tend to stop using it by the evening and don't come back in until around 6 or 7 am. And very few users use it on weekends.

Some users who come in during off- or early-hours have noticed that the application isn't very responsive when they first start trying to use it. One reports that on a few occasions it took between 3 and 5 signon attempts before they could actually sign in -- they'd get "An error has occurred loading your page". Unfortunately we built this app without any logging function so we can get an idea of what is happening.

But, can anyone say anything about web apps going to sleep, so to speak, after several hours of non-use? This application uses a Sql Server database located on a separate server, so it's also occurred to me that the difficulty could be caused by slowness of establishing contact with the Sql Server.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 83

Answers (1)

Rob Lyndon
Rob Lyndon

Reputation: 12661

This is by design. Some people use third party tools like Pingdom (https://www.pingdom.com/) to keep their websites alive.

Upvotes: 5

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