I have a few multi-site installs (over a dozen sites each) and I have real problems with site load times. These sites are low traffic and I think the APP is shutting down, thus has to spin up on most visits. Each site seems to need to be spun up which seems odd to me, I would have assumed once any site was touched the rest would awake as well. I've tried a lot of things but just can't get them to load. It takes nearly 5 seconds on each new site visit to get the site to load, then it's speedy browsing around.

The strange thing is that one of the site installs is very quick and never seems to go to sleep. All the installs are identical as far as I can tell. Something strange, almost feels like a bug.

Any new ideas or tricks? I've browsed around old posts and various things online. Not getting anywhere.

Mojo 2.4.03 (in testing phase of 2.5.0.0)
.NET 4.6
SQL Express 2008
IIS 7.5

I made some progress. Setting the app pool timeout to only recycle once a day did help a LOT. The odd behavior remains: I would think that if one site in a multi-site install was touched it would awaken ALL the other sites... but that's not the case, at least not with my installs. It seems that each site is being treated as an individual app pool (even though I know that's not the case).

Anyone aware of settings that could cause this behavior?

Thanks for the tips. I'll be looking into this. Any speed improvement is worth the effort!