Recently I’ve been looking at using traffic manager to front up websites hosted in Azure Websites. I needed to setup a custom domain name instead of using mydomain.trafficmanager.net. In order to use Traffic Manager with an Azure website the website needs to be setup using a Standard Hosting Plan. Each website you want …
Read MoreI’ve been setting up one of our services as the backend service for Azure API management. Part of this process we have mapped DNS to point to the service. As the service is hosted in Azure Websites there are now two urls that exist which can be used to access the service. I wanted to stop a user from accessing the site …
Read MoreOne of the conundrums we have with deploying sites to test means that there is often a lot of configuration that is needed on a test site that is different to a live site. There is also the time and risk of deploying a new instance into the production sites once testing has completed. Azure websites has introduced …
Read MoreWhen an Azure Website is created and is in production it will most likely be running in a Standard or Basic configuration. These are both sets of Virtual Machines and can be shared across your websites. In the old portal you could only scale the group of websites together but the new Azure Management portal now allows …
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