Need cheap Azure Account
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I've been hearing about this new fangled thing called the cloud... ... Enough crud, I do killer MVC and AJAX, etc. I have long (since classic ASP) had a portfolio site that I keep updated, especially when I'm looking for a yob. The last update was with MVC 4 (love MVC). The website is pretty cheap overall, I think I pay $80 a year for ASP.Net and have MySQL available, so I can do want I want. (I host the Cosmic Store, selling fine spaceships, weaponry and other SciFi paraphernalia). I only need the bandwidth of a good soda straw. The point is that I only use the site about once every year, but the cost is low enough as to be ignored. Along comes Azure. I need to be practicing development there. We don't use the cloud at all..... yet. I am experienced enough to know that I had better be ready. I know that I can get a free month of usage from MicroSquish, but that will not serve my purpose. I need something that I can work on over the years as I learn new methods and as far as I understand the cheapest Azure account is about $50 a month. That is not negligible. VS 2015 is coming. Is there anyway to get a "hobby" site like I have described for cheap?
I use VM's on Azure, usually cost me around £8 a month. I've tried the sites - they work well, but I prefer the flexibility to install anything else I need, copy/backup files or update config files every now and again. The big downside of Azure sites is that you have to pay for their database services and they're pretty expensive. It seems far easier/cheaper just to install SQL Express on a VM.
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I don't know where you got this amount of $50 a month from but it is actually way less. I have about 10 Azure pay as you go sites and my last bill was $0.12 I also use Visual Studio Online for free. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/[^]
OK, I'm researching this, but could you please elaborate some. This could be very useful for me and I bet, for other developers.
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I've been hearing about this new fangled thing called the cloud... ... Enough crud, I do killer MVC and AJAX, etc. I have long (since classic ASP) had a portfolio site that I keep updated, especially when I'm looking for a yob. The last update was with MVC 4 (love MVC). The website is pretty cheap overall, I think I pay $80 a year for ASP.Net and have MySQL available, so I can do want I want. (I host the Cosmic Store, selling fine spaceships, weaponry and other SciFi paraphernalia). I only need the bandwidth of a good soda straw. The point is that I only use the site about once every year, but the cost is low enough as to be ignored. Along comes Azure. I need to be practicing development there. We don't use the cloud at all..... yet. I am experienced enough to know that I had better be ready. I know that I can get a free month of usage from MicroSquish, but that will not serve my purpose. I need something that I can work on over the years as I learn new methods and as far as I understand the cheapest Azure account is about $50 a month. That is not negligible. VS 2015 is coming. Is there anyway to get a "hobby" site like I have described for cheap?
I'm not an expert of web sites in general, but Azure comes with a hobby-tailored subscription for free. You can have up to 10 different web-sites, and many other stuffs, but -of course- the resources they give you are pretty limited. Way enough for an hobbist, though. Have a read here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/[^]
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I've been hearing about this new fangled thing called the cloud... ... Enough crud, I do killer MVC and AJAX, etc. I have long (since classic ASP) had a portfolio site that I keep updated, especially when I'm looking for a yob. The last update was with MVC 4 (love MVC). The website is pretty cheap overall, I think I pay $80 a year for ASP.Net and have MySQL available, so I can do want I want. (I host the Cosmic Store, selling fine spaceships, weaponry and other SciFi paraphernalia). I only need the bandwidth of a good soda straw. The point is that I only use the site about once every year, but the cost is low enough as to be ignored. Along comes Azure. I need to be practicing development there. We don't use the cloud at all..... yet. I am experienced enough to know that I had better be ready. I know that I can get a free month of usage from MicroSquish, but that will not serve my purpose. I need something that I can work on over the years as I learn new methods and as far as I understand the cheapest Azure account is about $50 a month. That is not negligible. VS 2015 is coming. Is there anyway to get a "hobby" site like I have described for cheap?
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X| :-D If you want totally free, you can set up a basic EC2 instance on Amazon. That's what I've done, and it works great, though I will say that Azure has a much simpler setup process, the configuration options aren't a sea of icons, and it seems a bit faster. Marc
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I've been hearing about this new fangled thing called the cloud... ... Enough crud, I do killer MVC and AJAX, etc. I have long (since classic ASP) had a portfolio site that I keep updated, especially when I'm looking for a yob. The last update was with MVC 4 (love MVC). The website is pretty cheap overall, I think I pay $80 a year for ASP.Net and have MySQL available, so I can do want I want. (I host the Cosmic Store, selling fine spaceships, weaponry and other SciFi paraphernalia). I only need the bandwidth of a good soda straw. The point is that I only use the site about once every year, but the cost is low enough as to be ignored. Along comes Azure. I need to be practicing development there. We don't use the cloud at all..... yet. I am experienced enough to know that I had better be ready. I know that I can get a free month of usage from MicroSquish, but that will not serve my purpose. I need something that I can work on over the years as I learn new methods and as far as I understand the cheapest Azure account is about $50 a month. That is not negligible. VS 2015 is coming. Is there anyway to get a "hobby" site like I have described for cheap?
If you want a free alternative to Azure, try AppHarbor [^] I have no connection with them other than that I've had an ASP site on there for about 4 years now and I can't recommend them highly enough. Takes you about 10 minutes to sign up and create an app which it creates as a Git repository. Commit your code to it and their build server does the rest. If your app builds it publishes it to their cloud hosting. There are tons of free add-ons for SQL Server, Email, Message Queues etc
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I don't know where you got this amount of $50 a month from but it is actually way less. I have about 10 Azure pay as you go sites and my last bill was $0.12 I also use Visual Studio Online for free. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/[^]
If you need to back your app with a SQL database, do I have to sign up for the Database service? It wasn't very clear on the Free package. I mean, if I sign up for 100 MB database, in the calculator, I pay U$ 5,00 a month. Is that right? There is no free package?
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I've been hearing about this new fangled thing called the cloud... ... Enough crud, I do killer MVC and AJAX, etc. I have long (since classic ASP) had a portfolio site that I keep updated, especially when I'm looking for a yob. The last update was with MVC 4 (love MVC). The website is pretty cheap overall, I think I pay $80 a year for ASP.Net and have MySQL available, so I can do want I want. (I host the Cosmic Store, selling fine spaceships, weaponry and other SciFi paraphernalia). I only need the bandwidth of a good soda straw. The point is that I only use the site about once every year, but the cost is low enough as to be ignored. Along comes Azure. I need to be practicing development there. We don't use the cloud at all..... yet. I am experienced enough to know that I had better be ready. I know that I can get a free month of usage from MicroSquish, but that will not serve my purpose. I need something that I can work on over the years as I learn new methods and as far as I understand the cheapest Azure account is about $50 a month. That is not negligible. VS 2015 is coming. Is there anyway to get a "hobby" site like I have described for cheap?
Microsoft Azure is based on a Pay-As-You-Go model, so you provide them with a credit card, and you do something that costs, they will charge you. Give that, if you are looking to work on web development, you can have up to 10 free websites (per region, so that could be a lot, but I haven't tried going beyond 10 yet). The Basic SQL Database would likely cost you about $10 a month, though there is still a free 20-MB database available with one website. Additionally, if you have an MSDN subscription, you get a $50 credit for Pro, $100 for Premium, and $150 for Ultimate. As Premium and Ultimate is becoming Enterprise, I'm not sure what the credits will be (though I suspect $100 Pro and $150 Enterprise). Note that the website does not involve any special setup, configuration, etc. as Azure controls the web server. For just a website, that's fine. If you want to do more, then you can by creating your own web server, maintaining as you wish (but you will also need to pay for it).
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If you need to back your app with a SQL database, do I have to sign up for the Database service? It wasn't very clear on the Free package. I mean, if I sign up for 100 MB database, in the calculator, I pay U$ 5,00 a month. Is that right? There is no free package?
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There use to be a free 20Mb database option but they've stopped it. So no free option anymore. You can either use the database offer or create a VM with SQL Server express on it.
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I've been hearing about this new fangled thing called the cloud... ... Enough crud, I do killer MVC and AJAX, etc. I have long (since classic ASP) had a portfolio site that I keep updated, especially when I'm looking for a yob. The last update was with MVC 4 (love MVC). The website is pretty cheap overall, I think I pay $80 a year for ASP.Net and have MySQL available, so I can do want I want. (I host the Cosmic Store, selling fine spaceships, weaponry and other SciFi paraphernalia). I only need the bandwidth of a good soda straw. The point is that I only use the site about once every year, but the cost is low enough as to be ignored. Along comes Azure. I need to be practicing development there. We don't use the cloud at all..... yet. I am experienced enough to know that I had better be ready. I know that I can get a free month of usage from MicroSquish, but that will not serve my purpose. I need something that I can work on over the years as I learn new methods and as far as I understand the cheapest Azure account is about $50 a month. That is not negligible. VS 2015 is coming. Is there anyway to get a "hobby" site like I have described for cheap?
I use DigitalOcean for this kind of thing. It's not as big or comprehensive as Azure, but it's really, really cheap and seems to be reliable. They don't have dashboards to run Hadoop clusters, as far as I know. But if you just want a virtual machine in the clouds, I recommend them.