How do I deal with a recent Azure (Azure Websites) outage?
We have TONS sites hosted on Azure. Our virtual machines are currently running, but many of our Azure websites are not. In an attempt to get our sites back sooner rather than later, we tried to scale UP, OUT and change our hosting plan, to no avail. Is there a way to get the Azure Web VM to move to a different (production) datacenter? We do not want to destroy the site and restore it, as we will have to update the DNS, which will lead to an even greater delay in serving our customers.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sorry that everyone else is experiencing a long night with me.
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Your best bet is to run two site instances in two regions and use something like Traffic Manager (or AWS Route 53 if you want something external to Azure) to route for you as you go.
Depending on your site type, you might be able to run a static holding site in a non-Azure environment and fail over. How you decide this will depend on your budget (or opportunity cost in case your sites are offline).
Note that 99.9% annual SLA equals almost 9 hours of downtime per year.
If you want to understand how you could solve this problem internally in Azure, the guide is helpful: http://blog.kloud.com.au/2014/11/03/deploy-an-ultra-high-availablity-mvc- web-app-on-microsoft-azure-part-1 /
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