Azure Webapps

Question

"I have a product data warehouse of over 1 million products. Every new customer is hosting a website with me . But as we scale customers they all are going to be using the same images as many sites sell the same products (everyone with a unique URL). Instead of creating a copy of all these product images for each site I want to dynamically serve a single image to multiple different websites each with it’s own URL.

Is this possible? Or should I have a single endpoint that all websites reference for their images instead of using their domain?

Alternative it seems simpler to put all images on a xyzcommerce subdomain like cdnxyz.concertocommerce.com or imagesxyz.concertocommerce.com. But would that penalize my customers’ SEO if their site is www.xyz.com but all product images are on a xyz.com root domain?"

Answer 1

@Nick Diaz Thank you for reaching out and your interest in Azure.

My suggestion would be to host your site images on Azure CDN and then reuse the resource throughout your sites as needed.

When it comes to SEO and CDNs, you want to setup the CDN to use your domain. So cdn.contoso.com for contoso.com. This would then cover any subdomains under contoso.com such as app1.contoso.com and app2.contoso.com.

I would suggest starting with Azure CDN documentation to see if this further aligns with your needs.

If you have further questions regarding this matter, please let us know.

Answer 2

@Nick Diaz , a recent feature in Linux web apps allows you to mount a storage as a local share in app service allowing sharing assets across multiple web apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-connect-to-azure-storage?tabs=portal&pivots=container-linux . Have you considered this option? This would allow apps to serve the image using its own url.