An azure small VM is $55/month. the same 2gig dedicated host at godaddy is $200/month. Although azure doesn't include as much space or bandwidth, but cost is ne

An azure small VM is $55/month. the same 2gig dedicated host at godaddy is $200/month. Although azure doesn't include as much space or bandwidth, but cost is negligible. I hate devops with a passion. I don't want to deal service packs and patches, nor dealing with load balancers for the big sites, etc. I deploy everything to Azure Websites. It is so so cheap. Your app needs to be xcopy deployable (i.e. you can't rely on any installed components), but that is so rare anymore, I haven't run into any issues. See Hanselman's excellent post: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PennyPinchingInTheCloudWhenDoAzureWebsitesMakeSense.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PennyPinchingInTheCloudWhenDoA...