> > Don't you have MSDN? They give you a couple of hundred a month in free > compute. >
Yep! I get $200/month free. I'm using about half of that per month at the moment, so I created a cheap A0 VM which I'm configuring at the moment with SQL Express and IIS. I just discovered that my NBN IP silently changed again overnight without any apparent interruption, so it's an ongoing problem. It looks like most NBN providers consider a fixed IP to be a "business" requirement and to get it they would shove you up to some business plan as an excuse to charge you a lot more for very little. Exetel seems to provide a free fixed IP for home accounts. My current plan is to commission the Azure VM as the new host of my domain, databases and files. My home server will only remain for a while for in-house development and testing. *GK*
