Hi everyone,
I am really interested in your feeback.

I'm getting really strange bench results. I'm testing both examples on 1&1 shared hosting. Same server, so between the tests I change the .Net 2/3.5 for the fist bench and to 4/4.5 for the second one.

for my DNN6.1 installation which is quite clean and slim, I'm getitng 600-800 ms ping and the stie really loads up fast and is quite responsive.

for my 7.06 clean installation, I'm ping a clean welcome page and I am getting 5000 - 7000 ms and the overall performance is quite sluggish.

10 times the difference?

I've run each test for a week to be sure of the results. I've kept pinging the keepalive.aspx as well to ensure that the pool does not recycle. I've followed most of the suggestions about optimizing speed for a production server.

What are your experiences please? I find it hard to believe that DNN7 is slower than 6 ????