App pool timeout for azure web sites

Question

is there a way to set the timeout of an app pool of a web-site running under azure sites.

I have a site running there and it seems like it needs to spin up again wh

Answer 1

Since the relevant answer is in the comments it is easy to miss it. Currently Azure Web Apps support the Always On feature, that keeps your app in memory. It is available in Basic and upper tiers and you can configure it from the portal:

Resource_Group > Web App > Settings > Application settings

If you want to achieve the same effect in Free or Shared tiers you can create a webjob that will ping your website to keep it in memory. There are numerous blog posts how to achieve this 1, 2, etc.