I have a problem.

I've moved a website from some custom hosting to Umbraco Cloud, and everything works flawless. Except one thing.

In the root of the website they have a folder with a static documentation website. The website is protected through a web.config file like this.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
 <system.web>
  <authorization>
   <deny users="?" />
  </authorization>
 </system.web>
</configuration>

On the old website they maintained this folder through FTP, but this is clearly not possible on Cloud. So for now the client updates the content through KUDU. Yes, I know it's not the best solution.

The content of the folder is mostly PDFs and some html files, and in the past the client actually uploaded all files every time they've updated anything. In total it's approximately 5GB, and growing.

For now, I've managed to get them to only upload the changed files. But my problem is that one of the files is actually a zip, and it's rather huge. More than 2GB.

First problem is that when you upload a zip in KUDU, it will try to unzip it, which it shouldn't in this case.

Second problem is that a file of this size never completes the upload, it simply never finishes. It gives a timeout.

So my thought was to host the content of the folder like this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-static-website

And then somehow show the content of the storage container on a page in Umbraco.

This way the client can maintain the content through Azure Storage Explorer, and I could get it all out of the Umbraco Cloud repository.

Any input on something like this ?