How do I set up my IIS to keep my application alive?

Question

I think my Webapplication gets shut down after a while.

It returns a new session if I haven\'t used the application in maybe 5 minutes. The session timeout is set to

Answer 1

We had the same issue with a web service that had to stay online in such a way that we couldn't afford the latency involved in starting it up if it went stale.

We wrote a very simple Windows Service that woke up every 3 minutes and requested a page as @Wayne suggested. Worked like a charm.