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title: Adjusting the web hosting plan mode on Azure Web Apps
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

When you create an Azure Web App service in Visual Studio or the Azure Management Portal, it by default runs in the **Free** pricing tier. This tier not sufficient for a Kentico application. To run a Kentico application without any performance issues, we strongly recommend switching to a higher [hosting plan](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/):

1. Open the [Azure management portal](https://portal.azure.com/).
2. Open **App Services** and select your web app.
3. Switch to the **Scale up (App Service plan)** tab.
4. Select a **Basic** or higher pricing tier. The Free and Shared hosting plans do not provide enough memory to run a Kentico application.
5. Click **Select** at the bottom.

All web apps created in the same geographic region will have the same hosting plan mode.