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Azure App Service is a cost effective, reliable and resilient platform for hosting Umbraco. In fact, for sites that need anything beyond the most basic hosting, it's our preferred hosting platform. One useful feature of App Service is that it can be run in a load balanced configuration, which means that instead of a single computer serving content, you have many computers working together and taking it in turns to serve content.  Load balancing has a number of benefits:  By sharing the load across multiple servers, you increase the reliability of the website. So if a failure should occur on…

TL;DR For most scenarios yes.  #YMMV Umbraco 8 was launched with much fanfair in Feburary 2019, and as with most software there were some initial teething troubles which were quickly fixed.  But with 6 months passing, we began to wonder was Umbraco 8 ready for use in production environments. After much research and testing, including a practical Proof of Concept, we feel that without a doubt the core CMS is ready for use for most production scenarios.  However, there are some scenarios where you should be cautious before continuing, and some where Umbraco 8 is not production ready. One area…