How many times have you been woken up in the middle of a night for an issue that was simply resolved by restarting your web site? Wouldn’t it be nice to auto detect certain conditions and…

With the rapid increase in identity theft and various forms of cybercrime, security your website with Secure Socket Layer, or SSL for short has become more important and more common. If you are…

Configuring an Azure Web Sites (WAWS) for IP and Domain Restrictions has been one of our most requested asks, and it is now finally available. IP and Domain restrictions provide an additional…

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. To use it, you need to…

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. For example, the following are the headers…

When setting up a website, an important part of the game is having the site run on your own domain name. As you probably know, hosting your site on Windows Azure Web Sites allows this for both Shared…

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 a handy capability whereby developers can store key-value string pairs in Azure as part of the configuration information associated with a website.  At runtime, Windows…

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.  You might…

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.…