In researching the suitability of Umbraco as a new cms platform, I was looking into cloud services & scalability.
Is Azure currently a viable host for Umbraco?
The current definitive answers
...can be found in a Nov 2013 talk by Darren Ferguson on integrating Umbraco and Azure.If you don't have 37:02 to watch, here's the super-simplified executive summary:
Even with the latest Azure Websites, while hosting a single machine instance of Umbraco is not rocket science, hosting a scalable solution is not straightforward. A major hindrance is the back office - it is difficult (impossible?) to keep edits/updates synced across several servers. One work-around is to keep one instance of Umbraco running as the back end, which then publishes a frontend (public facing) to the scalable Azure Website. Darren ends with support for this separation to be a focus of Umbraco 8.TL;DR
Azure ready for Umbraco, Umbraco not ready for Azure (or seemingly any other scalable solution).
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