Chris Stewart's questions

I have a site running on Azure built in ASP.NET MVC. Part of the site is effectively a marketing site with mostly static pages, the rest is the dashboard that our users log into to use the product.

Currently it's all ASP.NET MVC tucked away in a Visual Studio solution, and effectively unreachable by anyone without access to the code. I'd like to expose the marketing pages so they can be edited without access to the code, also allowing them to be changed without compiling the solution and publishing it.

So, I'd like to figure out how to split our site into two, one that continues to run the dashboard site (could be http://app.domain.com) and another that's driven by Wordpress (http://domain.com) for all of the "about us" and marketing chatter. Currently we have 1 web site in Azure. How can I run a second site in Azure while sharing the domain? Any thoughts on a cost effective way to approach this?

I have a jar file that runs continuously and acts on various events. I need to create multiple instances of this jar, passing parameters to it on start up, and have it continue to run between shell sessions, reboots, etc. I'm planning to write an init.d script that has the command for each instance I need, passing in the appropriate parameters for each, and having it execute on boot. Does this sound like the correct approach?

It's possible that one of these instances can get stuck or crash, and I'll need to go in and restart it manually. I'm also wondering if there's a way that I can name each process that gets created, so when I look at top I can determine which process is which?