Umbraco Hosting

Summary: This page describes how we host Umbraco websites on Microsoft Azure. It is for organizations that want their Umbraco site hosted by people who also build on Umbraco.

Umbraco is a .NET content management system, and it runs best on hosting set up by people who know how it stores content and media. We build Umbraco sites and host them on Azure.

What Is Different About Hosting Umbraco

• Media. Images and documents uploaded by editors are kept on storage that is backed up separately from the site.
• Version upgrades. Umbraco’s major versions change how sites are built. We plan upgrades so that templates and content survive them.
• Editors. When an editor cannot publish or a page looks wrong, the people they reach can see both the content and the code.

Sites We Host

• Auburn Dairy, and its Yami and Zoi yogurt brands: auburndairy.com, yamiyogurt.com, zoigreekyogurt.com
• Prothman, an executive recruiting firm: prothman.com

More on the platform in Umbraco development.

What Is Included Every Month

• The platform. Your application runs on Microsoft Azure, on infrastructure we size to what your traffic needs.
• Database backups. We can restore your database to any point in the last 14 days. Weekly backups are kept for four weeks and monthly backups for four months.
• File backups. Uploaded files and images held on a file share are backed up daily.
• Your application code. It is redeployed from source control, so a rebuild does not depend on a server copy.
• Monitoring that reads the page. A site can answer “OK” while showing visitors an error. Our checks confirm the page contains what it should, raise an alert when it does not, and restart the application automatically.
• Load alerts. We are alerted by email and text when processor, memory or database load stays high.
• A monthly malware scan. Every site is scanned each month for malware and card skimmers and compared against a known-good copy.
• Platform patching. Azure patches the operating system and runtime. We handle updates to your application.
• A firewall at the edge, where it fits. A web application firewall that blocks known attack patterns before they reach your site is available.

What Is Billed Separately

• Changes to your site’s code or content.
• Work caused by a sustained increase in traffic, or by an attack on your site.
• Security audits and penetration testing, which are a separate engagement with their own scope.

How Support Works

We respond during Pacific business hours. Outside those hours alerts still reach us, and response is slower. A staging copy is set up when a change needs testing before it goes live.

Talk to Us About Hosting Your Umbraco Site

We build Umbraco sites and host them on Azure. Tell us your platform, its version, where it is hosted now and what is going wrong. We reply within one business day. Or call (206) 325-5383.