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Very nice! I think Azure's biggest hurdle so far is the association with Microsoft and people assuming "well it must be expensive" only to be proven right when
by JeremyMorgan 13y ago
Very nice!
I think Azure's biggest hurdle so far is the association with Microsoft and people assuming "well it must be expensive" only to be proven right when they sign up.
That being said, some parts of Azure are pretty cheap and for small site it's affordable as it is now. You can get 10 free websites and a couple decent sized databases for around $40 a month which gives you better service and scalability than you would get from a hosting provider at $40 a month.
If you're running a business or have some real traffic though, expect to pay considerably more for the service. It can really expensive, very fast.
- kenrikm 13y agoSo can hiring extra server admins, There's always a tradeoff.
- maaaats 13y agoAzure's pricing is great for side projects and small startups. Everything I have done so far has been free.
- rbanffy 13y agoDo they have a free tier like Amazon?
- JeremyMorgan 13y agoYou get 10 free websites with them, store your data elsewhere and just run applications. It's fast and reliable.
- patja 13y agoThe biggest unexpected fee I found in my comparison shopping was the $39 / month fee to support IP address SSL on Azure Websites.
- martinald 13y agoYes, 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.
- bananas 13y agoWe spend about £1500 on Azure a month. It's considerably cheaper than a quarter rack with a ton of bandwidth and all the associated license management. It's cheap but not budget.