azure-web-roles

I found that making requests to our web role after periods on inactivity would result in a very slow request (up to 30 seconds). After that initial request, the role would perform as it should. After much Googling, I came across four different strategies (listed below): (a) Disabling IIS idle timeout in RoleEntryPoint.OnStart() public override bool OnStart() { using (var server = new ServerManager()) { server.ApplicationPoolDefaults.ProcessModel.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.Zero; server.CommitChanges(); } return base.OnStart(); } This also requires that the role runs at an elevated level. (b)

Background: I've deployed an MVC3 application to 2 Azure Web Role instances, but I'm confused as to how I can test out the possibility of one of these instances failing. Is there a way that I can test to ensure that my Web Role code works seamlessly when one of my instances is taken offline? Can I manually stop one of them? Or somehow configure the load balancer to force all traffic to one of the servers? Thanks! If you have RDP access enabled to your instances you can very easily remove one or more instance out from LoadBalancer even when the instance is running healthy without writing any

I'm using AzureDirectory and Lucene .NET 2.9.4 but I have wo problems: searcher doesn't seems to be so fast. I'm indexing with these settings: indexWriter.SetUseCompoundFile(false); indexWriter.SetMergeFactor(1000); index is around 3.5gb and it has 12.126.436 docs. To create the indexSearcher it takes around 5 min or more even if index is already on local disk. Is the index too big? I tried to perform a single term search using MultiFieldQueryParser on two fields. TermVector on fields is off Everywhere is suggested to create only an instance of indexSearcher and share it between queries (in

I want to move my web role to a smaller VM size for cost saving purposes. I changed the vmsize attribute in WebRole in the ServiceDefinition.csdef accordingly. On publishing I received the following error: Total requested resources are too large for the specified VM size So I then reduced the size of the local storage resources in the ServiceDefinition.csdef . Then I got the error while publishing: The size of local resources cannot be reduced. Affected local resource is DataFiles in role Website. From what I have read online, I will need to delete the deployment and republish it . But this

Is it possible to update the value of a setting in an Azure Cloud Service with Azure Powershell? So far there is no way to update just a single setting (the Service Management API does not allow it - it only accepts the whole service configuration). So, in order to update a single setting, you will have to update the entire configuration. And you can do this with PowerShell: # Add the Azure Account first - this will create a login promppt Add-AzureAccount # when you have more then one subscription - you have explicitly select the one # which holds your cloud service you want to update Select

I am trying to insert multiple rows into the Azure table service. As far as this article goes, I have understood the partition key to be able to store duplicates. However, while following this article , when I try to insert a duplicate partition key I get an error: The remote server returned an error: (409) Conflict. What could be wrong in my code? I am following it as per the second article; Or is my understanding incorrect? Also, the first article says that the row key is supposed to act as primary key. The second article says I can hardcode it for the example. This has me confused as to