Application keeps resetting

[mlawrence]

Just signed up for services today, and so far I am happy with the speed. [:)]

I do notice the .net application keeps resetting itself every couple minutes. As you know, this means all application and session variables are lost, and my users need to relogin to my website. As well, the next page served takes considerably longer.

Can someone look into this and let me know what I need to do to stop it from happening?

Thanks.

[steurm]

There is a way to overcome this ...
A user-session is kept alive, as long as the time between two page request is less than 10 minutes. What I did, is including in the footer of my page a non visible iframe (1px by 1 px), that uses a metatag to refresh itself every 9 minutes and 45 seconds. The page which reloads itself is a tiny cached .aspx file. Since I use this, I no longer hear my visitors complain about timing out of sessions.

Maybe it could help you.
success

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Steurm
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[mlawrence]

Thanks for the information, and the tip! It's not yet in production, so I'll see what happens once I have a steady stream of hits.

Bruce, I take it you are tech support for the site?

Martin

[bruce]

The web server hosting your site is a Windows 2003 server and the server
is configured to recycle an idle process after 10 mins of inactivity. This
generally do not create problem if a site is in production. Unlike other
hosting companies, we run each website as it own unique process which
provides many benefits. For example,

- better security

An individual IIS worker process runs with the same authentication, that
means if multiple sites are sharing a process, user can easily write a
script to steal your files (including database file and connection
information)

- better stability.

When a user write a bad application (say with a infinite loop), it will only affect their site and will not cause others outage.


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Just signed up for services today, and so far I am happy with the speed. [:)]

I do notice the .net application keeps resetting itself every couple minutes. As you know, this means all application and session variables are lost, and my users need to relogin to my website. As well, the next page served takes considerably longer.

Can someone look into this and let me know what I need to do to stop it from happening?

Thanks.
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[bruce]

No. I do mostly development stuff but i understand the system well enough.

[b]quote:Originally posted by mlawrence

Thanks for the information, and the tip! It's not yet in production, so I'll see what happens once I have a steady stream of hits.

Bruce, I take it you are tech support for the site?

Martin
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[georgeASP]

Doesn't this approach prevent the Session timeout from working properly -- that is, now the session will never time out, so if a user leaves his window up overnight, the session will never time out and the process will never recycle.

George