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Medium Umbraco CMS web app configured to scale and optimal for high-traffic sites. It uses two web apps, one for your front-end app and the other for your back-office app, deployed in a single region with autoscaling enabled.
This solution is built on the Azure managed services: Azure SQL Database, Storage Accounts, Application Insights and Azure Cache for Redis. These services run in a high-availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in.
Architecture
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Deploy to Azure
Use the following pre-built template to deploy this architecture to Azure
Components
- Run an Umbraco CMS on the Web Apps feature of Azure App Service with the front-end and back-office apps running on the same app.
- Store your site's content in Azure SQL Database. The back-office web app and front-end web app use the same database. Use Azure SQL Database's features such as backup and high availability.
- Storage Accounts: Store all your media in Azure Storage, so you can reduce I/O operation on the web app file server and improve performance.
- Application Insights: Detect issues, diagnose crashes, and track usage in your web app with Application Insights. Make informed decisions throughout the development lifecycle.
- Store session state and output cache on Azure Cache for Redis to improve performance and reduce the load on your web front ends.
Next steps
- Create a web app from the Azure Marketplace
- SQL Database tutorial: Create a SQL database in minutes by using the Azure portal
- Get started with Azure Blob storage using .NET
- Logs, exceptions and custom diagnostics for ASP.NET in Application Insights
- How to create a Web App with Azure Cache for Redis
- Deploy to Azure