Hi all, I was wondering what is everyone's "go to" setup for hosting on Azure? Currently, the standard load balanced setup we usually we do is: - 3x Web Apps (

S2

) - 1x Backoffice editing app - 2x frontends that sit under Azure Application Gateway (WAFv2) - 2x Azure SQL (

S2

) (geo-redundant) - 1x Storage Account for blob storage (media & crops cache) This setup handles load very well, but is quite expensive (~£800 a month), and whilst it makes sense for the clients that need it, it absolutely does not make sense for smaller clients. I've seen people recommend the new Premium v3 service plan, specifically the

P0v3

, which looks to be on par/maybe better than the older

S2

tiers. (they're also a lot cheaper compared to

S2

) So my thinking is that these are two good options for more basic sites: - 1x Web App (

P0v3

) - which can be manually/automatically scaled up - (I know the backoffice / *SchedulingPublisher *server should NOT be scaled out, but scaling up *"should*" be ok?) or - 2x Web Apps (

P0v3

) - 1x backoffice edit app, not scaled - 1x frontend that can be scaled up/out. (with redis cache, or similar, if scaled out) Has anyone else used

P0v3

tier web apps for Umbraco?

Well it highly depends on the requirements I guess, and the complexion your site has I'm running my site (40K unique visitors/month) - B2 App Service for Live environment - 1x S1:20 DTU database - 1x Basic tier Test DB - 1x Basic tier Dev DB - Free tier App Service for Test - 1x storage account ~ 2000 content nodes ~ 20.000 media nodes For around 70€a/month 🙂

Oh yes definitely, I'm trying to think of a "minimum" setup. I usually use B1 tiers for dev/test apps, but I find Umbraco quite slow on them. How do you find the performance of the backoffice on a B2 for live?

how often are these sites updated .. you could go with publishing static files for smaller sites and reduce costs even more

For me it

runs like a train

(dutch expression, runs really good) We used to run on a B1, but when content / visitors grew it wasnt doable anymore

There was a package that helped you x site generator .. https://our.umbraco.com/packages/backoffice-extensions/xstatic/ its an old one but its sort of desrving of a v latest version.. and if i get time i might look at updating it.. but the idea is on publish generate some folder stick some html in them and bang you have website ( like we used to do in the old days.. 20 plus years etc

good to know, thanks 🙂

Nice, I like that expression! 😄 I've been using xStatic and Netlify, for my personal website, it's worked quite well!