In the last few days, the DotNetNuke Web Site has been struggling.  The recent move to dogfood the 5.1 Release Candidate has surfaced the worst possible type of error – a performance error based on load.  This is probably the toughest error to determine and eliminate as it may be one issue or a combination of several.

I know there are many in the community that are not pleased at the current situation as it does publicly air the problem DotNetNuke Corp is having. I, for one, am more interested in the solution than the minor embarrassment that the Corp may feel.  In the end, once the problem is found, I am confident the cross-checks and test will be put in place so this issue will not happen again which will lead to a better product in the long run. 

None of us in the community can point a finger at the Corp since every one of us have all had some issue bring us to our “knees” when attempting to correct an issue that is in the Customers hands. 

Also, please keep in mind that the problem exists in a release candidate. So bottom line, there will be another release candidate, as this one does not work on a high volume site.  Only DNN Corp is suffering the problem at the moment.  Yes it is true, we have to explain the issue to our Customers, but this is the pending release. 

No doubt this is a “all hands on deck” moment for the Corp – but I rather them take the time to understand the issue and fix it, than ram some “probable solution” in place. 

Good luck – please blog about the adventure as it will be most revealing.

Paul.