title: Can you prevent your ASP.NET application from shutting down?
body: <p>I think I heard that ASP.NET applications will shut down after a while of being idle (i.e. no visitors).</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to prevent this behavior from happening?  I have a timer that runs some code from the global.asax.cs application_start event, and want to make sure that it continues to run, even when no visitors are hitting the site.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>