Azure website keeps throwing the error “An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions”

Question

I have a website running as a web app on a dedicated Azure plan. It connects to a Redis, SQL Azure and a MongoDB backend. The website has been running fine for weeks no

Answer 1

Indeed, it does limit the amount of sockets. As far as I know, this isn't documented anywhere official. I do, however, have a blog post on this here: http://www.freekpaans.nl/2015/08/starving-outgoing-connections-on-windows-azure-web-sites/