title: Azure Web App - Request Timeout Issue
body: <p>I have and MVC5 web-app running on Azure. Primarily this is a website but I also have a CRON job running (triggered from an external source) which calls a URL (a <code>GET</code> Request) to carry out some house keeping. 
  This task is asynchronous can take up to and sometimes over the default timeout on Azure of 230 seconds. I'm regularly getting 500 errors due to this. </p>
  
  <p>Now, I've done a bit of reading and this looks like it's something to do with the Azure Load Balancer settings. I've also found some threads relating to being able to alter that timeout in various contexts but I'm wondering if anyone has experience in altering the Azure Load Balancer timeout in the context of a Web App? Is it a straightforward process?</p>