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Re: WSO CCC OTD 2015-03-06

krg6-Mar-15 2:37

krg

6-Mar-15 2:37

*polite ripple of applause*
Well done - it had me totally confused.

Very impressed with Microsoft Azure

Dominic Burford5-Mar-15 21:28

Dominic Burford

5-Mar-15 21:28

This week I migrated my personal web site over to Microsoft Azure. Previously I had full remote access to a dedicated web server to host my web site. I also hosted web sites for other people and between us we all shared the cost of the web server, even though I had sole technical responsibility and was the sole admin.

For a variety of reasons, they have all decided to leave and taken up other hosting providers (such as Wordpress), so I was left paying the bill on my own.

I decided to give Microsoft Azure a try as it offers a free service. So I migrated my ASP.NET site over to Microsoft Azure, and am very impressed. I had my web site running in a matter of hours, and thanks to the web site forwarding of my domain name supplier I can still use my domain name (by default Azure web sites have a .azurewebsites.com sub-domain extension).

Azure has all the configuration options you can shake a stick at, runs on the latest, greatest and fastest hardware, is simple and intuitive, and I can scale my web site if I ever need to.

Here's the link to my web site http://www.dominicburford.co.uk/[^]

My only questions is.........why I didn't move over to Azure sooner Smile | :)

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Re: Very impressed with Microsoft Azure

Duncan Edwards Jones5-Mar-15 21:43

Duncan Edwards Jones

5-Mar-15 21:43

How did you get Azure to use your own domain name[^] in the free hosting model - I thought that required a paid plan?

Re: Very impressed with Microsoft Azure

Dominic Burford5-Mar-15 23:22

Dominic Burford

5-Mar-15 23:22

It's easy if you know how Wink | ;)

But seriously, I worked this out when I was setting up my web site. If you want to override the default .azurewebsites.com extension so it never appears anywhere and only your own domain name appears, then you need to do this via Azure - which means using one of the paid subscription options.

The other way of doing it is to use domain forwarding - which you would configure with your domain name supplier. I have full control of my domain names and have configured web forwarding on my domain such that all page requests to my Azure web site get routed through to my domain name. You additionally have the option of hiding the target domain name on the browser address bar, therefore giving the impression you have navigated to your domain. Simple.

The only downside to web forwarding is that it isn't as SEO friendly as setting up the domain name using DNS with A and CNAME records. So if you were hosting your business on Azure you would probably use a paid Azure subscription and configure your domain via Azure. If you don't care about SEO then configure web forwarding instead. You can always change this later on if your web site gets more traffic.

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