Hi, I developed an asp.net based eCommerce Website for a client of mine and it is hosted at discount asp. The site is quite interactive, queries a database a lot and uses ajax.asp.net to spice up interactivity. The service suffers from a lot of restarts since discountasp enforces a 100mb per worker thread limit, when you top it, the service gets restarted. When there is a lot of traffic on the site, this happens almost every other minute and users see an unwelcoming "service unavailable" quite often.
Now I already tried to strip down memory usage, by eliminating almost all session objects, by using datareaders instead of datasets and by by employing a very disconnected, database based "state" architecture, but I still cannot keep MB usage under 100mb. So I am about to tell my client that he will need to move to a host, that does not have such a strict memory policy, maybe a virtual host on a machine with few users. But to double check things: how does memory usage on your sites look like? Could you check in Taskmanager, what asp net uses when you view a single site, and the tell me, together with some info about the site's complexity? I would be very glad, to have some numbers, that could tell me, if it's really me, or if the host just is not thought for heavier usage. Jan =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor� http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
