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> Error 403 - This web app is stopped. Oh, 2017... We need web app to show static content.
by Dolores12 10y ago
> Error 403 - This web app is stopped.
Oh, 2017... We need web app to show static content.
- pavlov 10y agoTo be pedantic, I guess a program that responds to HTTP requests and just does "pipe(file, response)" would also be a "web app", even though it's serving static content...?
- nbevans 10y agoThis. We've been pushing Microsoft to add static site support to Azure Blob Storage for years but keep getting rebuffed. Apparently their official advice is to spin up a free "Web App" - as if that is in any way comparable to a truly distributed static file server like S3 / AzStorage.
- numbsafari 10y agoClearly they don't want your business. So, why not use someone like GitHub, AWS, or GCP who does?
- user5994461 10y agoUse wordpress for your content. The clouds will charge $300 when you'll go first page on HN. You don't want that.
- abdullin 10y agoI have a counterexample. My blog is hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront CDN and costs a few dollars per month (most of that comes from Route 53). One day it appeared on the front page of HN. Total blog cost that month didn't exceed 5 USD.
- user5994461 10y agoYou are lucky to have a small audience and no media to deliver.
- shuntress 10y agoThe "Web App" is the thing that turns a request in to a response. Even if that is as simple as reading a static file and returning it unmodified as the body of the response. "Web App" is just their branding. It's just a web server that can stop/start/scale automatically as opposed to being 'always-on'.