Hosting multiple websites in a web role
Microsoft released Microsoft Azure as a production service in February 2010. A common complaint was that it was too expensive to develop small websites because a web role could support only a single website. The cause of this limitation was that a web role hosted a website using a hosted web core rather than the full IIS.
With the Microsoft Azure SDK v1.3 release, Microsoft Azure added support for full IIS for web roles. This means that a single web role can host multiple websites. However, all of these websites share the same Virtual IP address, and a CNAME record must be used to map the domain name of the website to the servicename.cloudapp.net URL for the web role. Each website is then distinguished inside ...
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