I don't expect a straightforward silver bullet answer to this, but what are the best practices for ensuring good performance for SharePoint 2007 sites?
We've a few sites for our intranet, and it generally is thought to run slow. There's plenty of memory and processor power in the servers, but the pages just don't 'snap' like you'd expect from a web site running on powerful servers.
We've done what we can to tweak setup, but is there anything we could be missing?
Best Answer
There is a known issue with initial requests once an IIS application pool has unloaded the SharePoint resources or recycled itself where the spin-up on a new request is very slow.
Details about why that happens and how to fix it can be found here; SharePoint 2007 Quirks - Solving painfully slow spin-up times