I have a small production instance on Azure for my web app. To quickly make changes to the live site, I open the instance via RDC and copy across any dlls and files that need to be added. That seemed to be working fine.
However, last night, the instance seemed to have been reset (I’m still investigating why) and the version of the site was rolled back to a month or so ago.
I have read on StackOverFlow that any changes made via RDC are not saved when an instance reset is performed by Microsoft and that it rolls back to the previous Publish.
Surely there has to be a quicker way to make changes to a production instance than having to Publish the app each time? Each Publish takes approximately 45 minutes. If I’m making multiple deployments per day then is there a better solution?
No, all changes must be published.
Microsoft garantees that there will be an working instance but no garantees that it will be same instance.
We were looking for other solutions but now just publish changes.
But we are probably lucky to waste 10 minutes to publish.