Performing actions to change the site status

1. Click Dashboard | Site Dashboard.
2. Click the site Name.
3. Click the relevant link in the Operations panel. For more information, see Site status.
   • To lock a site, click Lock site and Yes. Lock a site to prevent anyone changing the application. When a site is locked, you can unlock, amend, suspend, or stop it.
   • To unlock a site, click Unlock site in the Operations panel and Yes.
   • To suspend a site with a Ready or Locked status, click Suspend site and Yes. This stops the running hosted services. When a site is suspended, you can shelve or resume it.
   • To resume a suspended site, click Resume site and Yes. This recreates the required hosted services for the suspended site.
   • To shelve a suspended site, click Shelve site and Yes. This archives SQL Azure data that's no longer needed and frees Azure resources.
   • To unshelve a shelved site, click Unshelve site and Yes. This retrieves archived SQL Azure data that was shelved or restores data that was backed up.
   • To delete a shelved site, click Delete site and Yes.