Before Web Jobs The convenient way of hosting websites on Azure is to host them as a PaaS (Platform as a Service) way. Then, there is no need to worry about details of virtual machines or application managements and OS updates as ‘someone’ is taking care of that for us. Current Azure compute instances can be divided into three main categories:Web Role – front-end/web server instancesWorker Role – back-end/.Net application instancesVW Role – virtual machine instances The first two are supplied with VHD ...