Too right. I'm hosting my blog on Azure now.
http://mitchdenny.com/
I've also started documenting how to get FunnelWeb running:
http://mitchdenny.com/running-funnelweb-on-windows-azure
The good news I am doing the hard work so you don't have to :)
Mitch Denny
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 4:58 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: The cost of putting small websites online
<plug>
If you're an MSDN subscriber, then you get Azure usage as part of that
subscription.
You can host multiple web sites on a singe Azure instance. In fact, what you
might want to do is have 2 extra small instances running multiple web sites so
you've got the umpteen 9's SLA.
</plug>
Cheers
Coatsy
Andrew Coates, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH
RYDE NSW 2113
Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 * Mob +61 (416) 134 993 * Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 *
http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat/
________________________________
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>
[ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] on behalf of David Burela
[david.bur...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 15:41
To: ozDotNet
Subject: The cost of putting small websites online
Over the weekend I was considering "supporting websites". Websites that support
the promotion of your small applications (such as phone apps).
Lets say I'm making phone applications, and I just want to throw a website up
to act as a landing page. Something I can direct new users to which displays an
About page, have an embedded video, etc.
I tried doing some calculations for how much something like this would cost,
this is what I came up with
AppHarbor / DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com/pricing &
https://appharbor.com/pricing)
Domain registration - $16 / year
DNS mapping - $34 / year
Website hosting - $0
Website hosting with DNS mapping - $120 / year
Total $170 / year / application.
Wordpress.com
Domain registration - $5 / year (wordpress upgrade)
Domain mapping - $12 / year (wordpress upgrade)
Removal of adverts - $36 / year
Custom design - $30
Total $83 / year / application
Both options are probably more than I'll make on most of my small apps. And
gets expensive when promoting multiple apps.
I could try and get more bang for my buck and extend the site so that it can
also host some supporting webservices that my application can use.
Are my calculations correct?
Is there another way to go about this?
How do you guys go about creating small landing pages like this?
("Buying your own server" seems a very heavy handed way to go about it, and I
don't want to become a full time sys-admin looking after my own server)
-David Burela
