Open up the Internet Information Services Manager by clicking Start > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Expand your server's node in the treeview on the left side, then click on Application Pools. Right click on DefaultAppPool and click on Advanced Settings. Change the Application Pools.NET Framework Version to v4.0 (if it's not already) and change the Start Mode to Always Running. Then change Identity setting to LocalSystem and change Idle Time-out (minutes) to 0. Then click OK. NoteKeep AliveYou must enable Rock's "Keep Alive" process, this is disabled by default. This setting is not needed if your AppPool's Idle Time-out is set to 0 - which is highly recommended. Now right-click on DefaultAppPool and click on Recycling. Un-check Regular Time Intervals and instead provide a convenient time for Rock to restart each day (such as 4:00am) in the Specific Time(s) option. Click next and then click Finish. Finally, expand Sites (below Application Pools on the left side) and right-click Default Web Site. Choose Manage Website -> Advanced Settings. Change Preload Enabled to True and click OK. Generally the bindings will be configured for you automatically. However, if they're changed and you need to reset them, in most cases you'll use the configuration pictured below. Note that in some cases you must provide a Host Name; You can use an asterisk (*) in place of a host name. Click on the SSL Settings padlock icon to view your SSL settings. Performance Setting: Response Compression Settings Now let's check that IIS compression is enabled for dynamic content. To do this, open the Compression feature: If the option Enable dynamic content compression is available, select it and click Apply. If the option is grayed out, the dynamic content compression module may not be installed, and you can skip this step. That was easy! Now let's move on and set up our database.