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Bernard Vander Beken
Bernard Vander Beken

Reputation: 5056

Azure Shared Web Site mode and availability

Taken from How to Scale Web Sites:

A web site running in Shared mode benefits from high availability even with a single instance, but you can add up to 6 instances ("scale out") for even greater performance and fault tolerance. For more information, see "How to Change Scale Options for a Web Site" later in this document.

Given the single-instance, shared web site scenario, how is the availability (uptime) affected by web site updates?

My previous Azure experience is based on Azure web roles, where a single instance means you get a long (read minutes) downtime for every update.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 122

Answers (1)

levelnis
levelnis

Reputation: 7705

If you're meaning updates in the sense of changes that you push to your site (as opposed to changes to the underlying technology by the Azure team), then my experience with websites has been of the order of seconds rather than minutes. If you're using Git for deployment via Github or Bitbucket, then it's the time taken to deploy the changes (around 30 seconds or so depending on the size of the site), plus the time taken for an App Pool recycle. It's usually all done within a couple of minutes.

Upvotes: 2

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