According to the Azure calculator an XS VM costs $0.02/hr, which comes to about $175 a year. That is less than an 2 hours worth of sysadmin cost, excluding the

According to the Azure calculator an XS VM costs $0.02/hr, which comes to about $175 a year. That is less than an 2 hours worth of sysadmin cost, excluding the hardware costs. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=virtual-machines http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenar... If you just have a website that you want to host you can use Azure Websites, which have a free tier (doesn't get much cheaper than that).