4 ms·
This. 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
by nbevans 10y ago
This. 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'.