This link was provided by Telerik to control recycle time:
http://www.techbubbles.com/aspnet/auto-start-web-applications-in-aspnet-40/ I did not have success adding all of these settings to our environment. This one for the applicationHost.config seemed to not causes issues.
<applicationPools>
<add name="MyApplicationPool" startMode="AlwaysRunning" />
</applicationPools>
The preloadEnabled and preloadProvider resulted in a 500 error on my site.
For creating the machine key required for network load balancing:
http://aspnetresources.com/tools/machineKey