Azure Error 403 this site is stopped

Question

I have a asp.net mvc5 site running off a azure website, its running off a D1 shared infrastructure.

In the last couple of days I've had a few issues when deploying to it. Its at times been unable to deploy. (i've hashed out my site name)

Error 26 Web deployment task failed. (Could not connect to the remote computer ("#####.scm.azurewebsites.net") using the specified process ("Web Management Service") because the server did not respond. Make sure that the process ("Web Management Service") is started on the remote computer. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_COULD_NOT_CONNECT_TO_REMOTESVC.)

And now when I deploy I'm getting

Error 403 - This web app is stopped.

. When I look in the azure portal it says the site is running and I cannot see anything in the ftp logfiles\http\rawlogs\ which would indicate this issue. i.e. I can just see 200 responses from then the site was last responding.

Restarting the site via the portal doesnt seem to make a difference.

How can i diagnose the cause of this problem? and is it possible that it could be related to any changes i have made to my application rather than a server infrastructure issue?

Answer 1

You may be running into Quota issues if your site is in SHARED mode. Please try upgrading to STANDARD mode.

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