Managing the Microsoft Azure Node.js service

Now you have successfully deployed your Node.js code, you will need to learn how to maintain it in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure makes it very simple to maintain a Node.js service and also makes it very easy to scale out if your application happens to become very popular. Let's look at some of the menus that are in your henryApp1234 Node.js service.

Creating a backup of the service

You never know when there could be a catastrophic failure in the virtual server that maintains your Node.js service. To prepare for that, it is best practice to create a backup of your server contents. When you go to henryApp1234 in the Microsoft Azure portal, you will see Backup in the menu....