Azure Web App deployment slots are used to help roll out new versions of an app without downtime or cold start activation. New version is typically deployed to a staging slot, then after testing ...
https://ruslany.net/2015/09/how-to-warm-up-azure-web-app-during-deployment-slots-swap/
In the beginning of the year Windows Azure Web Sites team has released a preview of the Staged Publishing functionality. The Staged Publishing allows you to create a staging site slot where you ...
https://ruslany.net/2014/03/azure-web-sites-continuous-deployment-with-staged-publishing/
The recent upgrade of Windows Azure Web Sites includes several PHP related improvements: First, the PHP 5.5 is now available. The PHP 5.4 becomes the default version used for newly created sites...
https://ruslany.net/2013/12/php-5-5-wincache-1-3-5-available-in-azure-web-sites/
Windows Azure Web Sites has recently been upgraded to a new version. Among all the improvements and bug fixes in the new version there is one change that fixes a known issue with update of WordPr...
https://ruslany.net/2013/03/azure-web-sites-wordpress-plugin-update-bug-fixed/
The need to diagnose and troubleshoot application’s failures often comes up during deployment to a hosting environment. Some configuration settings in hosting server may differ from what appli...
https://ruslany.net/2013/01/php-troubleshooting-in-windows-azure-web-sites/
In my previous post about the migration of a WordPress site to Windows Azure I mentioned that I used phpMyAdmin to import existing blog data into a MySql/ClearDb database in Windows Azure. phpMyA...
https://ruslany.net/2012/12/phpmyadmin-on-windows-azure-web-sites/
I have not been writing any blog posts for a while. That was because for the past two years I have been busy working in a team that develops the Windows Azure Web Sites – a scalable web hosting...
https://ruslany.net/2012/10/ruslany-net-running-on-windows-azure-web-sites/
Microsoft has recently launched a beta release of a new project called WebMatrix. This is a complete web development stack that can be used to start developing and deploying web sites. One thing...
https://ruslany.net/2010/07/install-php-applications-with-webmatrix/
On April 9, Mark Brown and I did a PHP|Architect webcast “PHP Performance On Windows”. The slides from the presentation have been published at the following link: PHP Performance on Windows �...
https://ruslany.net/2010/04/slides-and-questions-from-php-on-windows-webcast/
PHP on Windows loads its configuration file php.ini during the startup of the process php-cgi.exe. When PHP is run on IIS via FastCGI the php-cgi.exe processes are re-used to handle many requests...
https://ruslany.net/2010/03/php-on-iis-monitorchangesto-setting-in-fastcgi/