What is the difference between an Azure Web Site and an Azure Web Role

Question

What are the material differences between the new Azure Web Sites and the traditional Azure Web Roles for an ASP.NET MVC application? What reason would I choose a \"web sit

Answer 1

Azure Web Role is like a virtual private host. You get a VM that acts as your web server, and you own that VM instance.

Azure Web Sites are like an elastic shared hosting service. You deploy your app to a web server that is not controlled by you and which also servers other users' sites. You can scale your site up and down (at some extra charge) to make it more elastic as your resource needs shift.