Another great post by Terri over at OrcsWeb that I think you’ll find beneficial. Here’s a brief intro and a link to the full post…
Microsoft has released a new module for IIS 7.5 which provides the ability to ‘warm-up’ an application and provide a ‘pretty’ page to the end-user until the application is fully loaded and ready to serve content. It is difficult to determine that this module has been installed without checking your Programs and Features or Web Platform Installer. This post will explain how to implement this functionality on IIS 7.5…
http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/terri/implementing-application-initialization-on-iis-7-5/
Happy hosting!