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Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) - Collecting dumps of the worker process (w3wp.exe) automatically whenever a request takes a long time
Websites being slow is perhaps the most common problem every website administrator, and developers run into. If they are extremely unlucky, then see this problem only in their production environment. Many troubleshooting techniques, best practices are available for this scenario. I will try to cover them in a different post as a part of my ASP.NET Troubleshooting series some other time. Meanwhile, you can try looking at this post of mine, where I’ve something that might help you.
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Quick ways to edit your files hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS), other than re-deploying
Editing a small piece of code, or change in configuration file is perhaps the most common thing for a developer to do while testing the site, or even when the site is live for production traffic. When you host in with some hosting providers, most often you end up re-deploying the whole package, or transfer that file over FTP, or any other deployment methods. In this blog, I’m going to cover a few other methods which will help you edit your files of your website hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites.
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Removing the X-Powered-By response header from Windows Azure Web Sites
People do want to remove this header as a part of some of their security audit that claims to know the server software running their site, and that knowledge will make an attacker craft malicious attacks known for that server version. If you are on latest versions of any server side framework, you should be good. But, some think it is always a good idea to remove that.
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Tweaking the queueLength for PHP handler - Windows Azure Web Sites
Users moving to Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) is increasing day by day. Happy to see many of the PHP websites being hosted with WAWS. If you are hosting your high traffic website with WAWS, I would like you to consider increasing the queueLength property of FastCGI handler for PHP that handles your request. By default, the value for queueLength property is 1000, which means only 1000 concurrent requests can be in the queue getting processed. For a many high traffic websites, this might seem to be a low number, and you would start seeing 503 errors in your instance logs.
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Editing Windows Azure Web Sites online with the new shiny Monaco
Yeah, this is one feature everyone wanted for a long time. An online editing option, with all (okay, almost) the goodness of Visual Studio. Here is my step by step guide to do the same. I’m assuming you have already created a Windows Azure Web Sites. If you haven’t, you can read about that here.