Why does CF11 seem to sleep after no access within a few minutes?

That really sounds like the issue, I hope it is!  Fingers Crossed.

Thanks, that was a great thing to check.  Mine are set to "automatic".  I don't think that would be it anyway, because it is not just when the service starts, it is constantly sleeps just by not accessing the page for 10 minutes, then when I come back to the page it has to wake up or do something.

One thing I am curious into looking into is something to do with storing client information.  I wonder if after the session has timed out if it has to make a client connection and setup information before it will show the page.  It may be what I am setting in my application.  Here is what I have in the basic format (this is everything that I see that deals with my session management):

application.cfc

<cfcomponent output="false">

  <cfscript>

  //Set Application variables and session management

  this.name = "mywebsite";

  this.applicationTimeout = createTimeSpan(0,0,45,0);

  this.datasource="myDSN";

  this.sessionmanagement = "true";

  this.sessiontimeout = createTimeSpan(0,1,00,0);

  this.scriptProtect = "all";

</cfscript>

<cffunction name="onApplicationStart" returntype="boolean" output="true">

  <cfscript>

  application.sessions = 0;

  </cfscript>

</cffunction>

<cffunction name="onSessionStart" access="public" returntype="void" output="false">

  <cfset var rootDir = "">

  <cfparam name="application.sessions" default="0">

  <cfscript>

  session.started = now();

  </cfscript>

  <cflock scope="SESSION" throwontimeout="No" timeout="5" type="Exclusive">

  <cfset application.sessions = application.sessions + 1>

  </cflock>

</cffunction>