App Initialization upon Poll Recycle

What we want to achieve?

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)