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Keeping your ASP.net-built web site alive can be critical to your site user’s experience. Let’s face it, not all of our online stores are getting hits every minute of every hour of every day. If your site hasn’t received a visitor in say an hour, the compiled web code from memory in an ASP.net web site may clear. In the time that it takes for another visit to your site, your .net site may take a while to load making your visitor wait. For online stores, this can be the difference in a sale!

There is help. The makers of SmarterStats and SmarterMail have whipped up a jolt of lightening for .net sites to help them stay compiled and in-memory of the hosting server.

“SmarterPing is an HTTP keep-alive utility. SmarterPing helps to ensure that users will not have to wait for a long period of time while their web site compiles after an IIS reset.”

We’ve been using this tool for about a year, helping to keep the online stores we’ve built for our clients alive and ready to take on another customer. We’ve installed the tool on an always-running computer connected to the internet.

Did I mention the tool is free? Quite generous. Not to mention, this software is from a very respected software development company. Go here to visit their site and download the free tool:
http://www.smartertools.com/Products/SmarterPing/Default.aspx