Kentico
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FAQ
Do you Support Kentico?
- Yes, our Windows Shared and VPS Hosting Plans support Kentico.
Where are your Kentico Hosting Plans?
- All Windows Hosting Plans support Kentico, here are our current Windows Hosting Plans.
How do I Install Kentico?
- Please see the below wiki titled How to Deploy Kentico
How to Deploy Kentico
- Here is how to Setup Kentico on your local machine: Kentico Setup Documentation
- Here is how to Install the base Kentico Files on a website: Kentico Install Documentation
- Here is how to Deploy a Kentico website: Kentico Deploy Documentation
- You will need to choose the Free or Paid License from Kentico here: Kentico Plan Page
- Since Kentico requires a MSSQL Database, here is our wiki on how to add one from your WCP: MSSQL Database Management
How to Apply Kentico Hotfixes
- This wiki shows you how to apply hotfixes to your Kentico installation on a Shared Hosting Plan. Where you don't have admin access.
- Download the Hotfix Package from Kentico. It is a self-extracting package.
- Extract it and open the instructions.
- Follow the section in the instructions labelled “Creating File Structure for Deployment” in order to create the necessary files for your project.
- Backup your project folder and database.
- Submit a request to support@hostek.com to STOP your site's Application Pool in IIS.
- After receiving confirmation from our support team that your site is stopped, copy the new files into your project folder.
- Submit a request to support@hostek.com to START your site's Application Pool in IIS.
- Apply the SQL Script from the <hotfix folder>/SQL on your database.
- This can be done through your WCP's MSSQL Tools button by picking the MyLittleAdmin option there OR by using SQL Server Management Studio.
- In this way you can see which files the hotfix re-writes and you can see the exact error messages.
- Instructions for this wiki were taken from the Kentico Dev FAQ Can I apply the hotfix manually instead of using Kentico Installation Manager?.
Common Problems
Troubleshooting Slowness
- Kentico tends to be extremely slow on the initial load of the page, and then slow going from page to page, so here is a great post on how to resolve this issue:
- Here are some additional tips on how to optimize Kentico's performance:
- http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/performance_overview.htm
- http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Martin-Hejtmanek/January-2010/Optimization-tip--Write-better-code,-disable-Outpu.aspx
- http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Martin-Hejtmanek/December-2009/Optimization-tip--Speed-up-your-images-and-files.aspx
- http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Martin-Hejtmanek/December-2009/Tip--Is-your-menu-and-controls-cache-settings-effi.aspx
- http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Martin-Hejtmanek/October-2009/Webinar-2---Performance-optimization-and-caching-i.aspx