>>How can you assign more than one application pool to a web site ?
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>Correction, I meant "worker process".
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>But, all of that requires access to IIS. That is why I believe only in VM I would be able to control all that.

Ah. I *think* that in Azure you control that by specifying the number of instances of the web role to be created - something you can adjust depending on load. But I'm not absolutely sure about that - I'll take a look at my portal and get back to you....