Yes, definitely. This is a really annoying drawback of Azure websites, because apart from that it is a really good little service for lighter loads. We've found

Yes, definitely. This is a really annoying drawback of Azure websites, because apart from that it is a really good little service for lighter loads. We've found great success in using it for API services and the like that get little traffic, but could do with being separated out from the core website. It's actually worse than it just being $39/month, because you can't use the free or shared tiers, which is even more annoying. Azure peeps: please change this! It makes it very hard to justify using Azure websites when you could just get your own VM and install an SSL cert on that with no restrictions for lot less.