How to improve startup performance on IIS / ASP.Net

Question

I am using a particularly slow virtual web host (name withheld!) where disk performance can be very bad. Thus, the first hit to my ASP.Net web sites can take 1+ minutes to l

Answer 1

How much of the site do you want to have pre-loaded? How many pages?

You can pre-compile the site, to remove the "compilation" part of the issue, but if the site is large enough, it may not make sense to "pre-load" the site. This would be especially true if the site runs on multiple hosts.