Windows Azure® Web Sites by James Chambers

Author:James Chambers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

Controlling Site State

These are the bread-and-butter commands of any web developer. You’ve likely worked from the command line before to restart IIS, or perhaps you’ve even used WMI in PowerShell to start, stop, or recycle a website or app pool. To do the same to your Windows Azure Web Sites, you just follow the standard verb-noun syntax of PowerShell and pass in the name of your site. For example, use the following to stop your site:

Stop-AzureWebsite YourSiteName

To restart it, use this:

Start-AzureWebsite YourSiteName

Or, if you want to do it all in one fell swoop:

Restart-AzureWebsite YourSiteName

Here are some suggestions for how you may be able to use these as part of your scripts:

Your site exposes an API and you have a secondary website or application that consumes the API. You want to introduce some instability in the back-end application to test fault tolerance in the consuming application.

You are penny-pinching and want to turn off sites when you reach certain usage levels to avoid charges, and automatically turn them back on when your billing cycle starts anew.

You are testing cold-start (the traditional IIS kind, not the deactivated Azure Web Site kind) performance for your website.

You need to reset the cached values associated with your website.

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