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With the increase in cybercrime in recent years, securing your website with SSL is becoming a highly sought-after feature, and Windows Azure Web Sites provides support for it.

Part of the HTTP communication process that occurs between web servers and browsers are the HTTP headers that are included in the request and response.

When setting up a website, an important part of the game is having the site run on your own domain name.

Setting up multiple instances of a website in Windows Azure Websites is a terrific way to scale out your website, and Azure makes great use of the Application Request Routing IIS Extension to…

Windows Azure Web Sites has recently added support for the WebSocket protocol. Both .NET developers and node.js developers can now enable and use WebSockets in their applications.

Windows Azure Web Sites has a handy capability whereby developers can store key-value string pairs in Azure as part of the configuration information associated with a website.

When you are starting on a new web project, or even just beginning to develop web sites and applications in general, you might want to start small.  But you probably won’t stay that way.

Editor’s Note: This post comes from the Windows Azure Monitoring Team. Today we are excited to announce the ability to configure threshold based alerts on monitoring metrics within the Azure.

As part of the Windows Azure CTP, we are announcing the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to deliver Windows Azure Blob content.