Azure App Service fails to start with never ending Orleans connection exceptions about orleans

[ReubenBond]

Which App Service plan are you using? If you are only using a single host (and you have no external Orleans clients), you could try with UseLocalhostClustering()

[justinm0]

We are using a Windows app service plan on sizes S1 or S2 in South Africa North.

I discovered that the app was being automatically restarted because it wasn't starting up in time, which is not fully Orleans's fault, although Orleans does add to the startup time. I increased the startup timeout through web.config and the site now starts.

However, if it uses the table with the many records it still keeps trying to connect to other hosts forever, throwing exceptions. If I switch it to a clean table it runs without exceptions.

Is there any way to resolve this without clearing the table?

[justinm0]

Any insight on my question above? This issue still happens sometimes. Is using localhost clustering the only option here?