How to prevent an Azure website from going to sleep?
I deployed an ASP.NET 5, MVC 6 web application to Azure. It seems that if I don't hit the site for 10-15 minutes, it goes to sleep and it takes a good 10-15 seconds for it to wake up. I am not sure whether its the website that's falling asleep, or the database that it's connecting to. So 2 questions. How do I prevent the site from going to sleep so soon. Is there a way to have visibility into what's going on in Azure with the website and the database. Are they kicked out of memory? Azure Web Apps have an 'Always on' option (with basic/standard tiers) which keep your app (and associated web