WordPress on Microsoft Azure Now More Scalable

Posted by Openness Team

This week’s Microsoft Azure update includes new features for Azure Websites, an enterprise-class cloud service for developing, testing, and running corporate websites, business applications, and digital marketing campaigns.

In addition to VPN support, Azure Websites introduced a scalable WordPress offering through the application gallery to help enterprises setup robust CMS backed sites. Frederic Lardinois at TechCrunch covered how this release “makes scaling WordPress on Azure easier,” noting that almost a quarter of all sites on the web today run WordPress. 

Users can now quickly spin up new sites that leverage Azure capabilities such as Azure Storage for media assets, curated WordPress plugins that are optimized for performance, and a scalable backend with Standard Websites instances and higher end MySQL SKUs.

For more on this news and other enterprise updates, please check out the Microsoft Azure blog.

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• Anonymous
  September 16, 2014
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• Anonymous
  September 20, 2014
  I believe you have "really" made Azure scalable to WordPress, or should I say the reverse! Even though I'm using Azure for quite a long time now, initially it had so many limitations - hope the team replies to thosehttp://ekendraonline.com/computing/install-wordpress-any-cms-windows-azure-cloud/