Earlier this year I wrote about how to mimic the “always-on” feature even in a free Azure Website, by running a custom webjob that periodically would request the site, thus keeping it in memory and always fast and responsive. A friendly reader noticed me last week that my original solution […]
The default configuration for windows azure websites and cloud services is to unload your application if it have not been access for a certain amount of time. It makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to do this, as they save resources on by stopping infrequently accessed sites. As an […]
If you experience problems with your Windows Azure development fabric (the compute emulator) that gets really slow at opening new outbound TCP connections, then it might be because the TCP connection pool are getting filled with TCP connections stuck in the TIME_WAIT state. TCP connections are a limited resource so […]