To spin up application (initialize) earlier than first visitor
App Pool pre-setup
Advanced Setting
- Start Mode: AlwaysRunning
- Idle Time-out (minutes): 0
Recycling Setting
- Fixed Interval: <To set at odd timing>
Website pre-setup
Advanced Setting
- Preload Enabled: True
Step to configure Application Initialization
1. Make sure IIS Feature Application Initialization is installed in the machine
2. Go to your Web site in IIS > Management > Configuration Editor
3. Navigate to section: system.webServer/applicationInitialization and do setting below
- (Collection): add a new record
- hostName: Site URL (demo.local)
- initializationPage: Path to a page (/home)
- doAppInitAfterRestart: True
- remapManagedREquestsTo to a static HTML (Optional)
