Azure Web Role “warm up” strategies [closed]

Answer 1

We use a combination of a couple of those answers and it works perfectly well for us, they're very quick to change and test however, it seems to cover all bases.

public override bool OnStart()
{
    ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit = 12;
    if(!RoleEnvironment.IsEmulated)
    {
        using(ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager())
        {
            foreach (var app in serverManager.Sites.SelectMany(x => x.Applications))
            {
                app["preloadEnabled"] = true;
            }
            foreach (var appPool in serverManager.ApplicationPools)
            {
                    appPool.AutoStart = true;
                    appPool["startMode"] = "AlwaysRunning";
                    appPool.ProcessModel.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.Zero;
                    appPool.Recycling.PeriodicRestart.Time = TimeSpan.Zero;
            }
            serverManager.CommitChanges();
        }
    }
    return base.OnStart();
}

Answer 2

Have you considered using the Azure endpoint monitoring to both monitor and trigger your role to respond every 5 minutes? It's built into Azure and there's no code needed.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-monitor/