What is the difference between an Azure Web Site and an Azure Web Role

Question

Can someone tell me the differences between the Azure Web Site and the Azure Web Roles for an ASP.NET MVC application? Can anyone justify using web role over website or vice versa Is there anything which is difficult or impossible to do in a web role but possible in web site . For eg: if I've to put multiple websites in a single set of VMs using "websites" ? Ability to tune IIS? Ability to use the Cache service locally? Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

Web role over web apps: You can isolate a VM from the network IP restricted access to virtual machines can be provided It works with IIS Network isolation can be done You can easily split an app into different tiers and scale independently Web apps over web role: It uses SQL or MySQL as a database Deployment can be done instantly with rollback history Website content backup support is provided Scaling is easy and fast Backup for website content.