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You're totally welcome.
Jeremy Falcon
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I've used AWS for a few years at Crate and Barrel and Azure here at my current job. The basic way I describe the differences between the two are that AWS can be a bit more of a low-level experience than Azure. It has a ton of functionality and you can do pretty much anything with either platform, but you will be doing a bit more work out of the box in AWS to get auto-scaling and other services working. I was able to set up Nginx as a reverse proxy and web servers in the backend pool and it worked really well. It was a mix of Linux and Windows. I used virtual machines and auto-scaling groups in AWS whereas in Azure, I did the same thing but with all managed services (App Gateway, Web Apps, Azure SQL). If you are working primarily in .NET, you'll find that the tight integration of all the microsoft products has great support. Linux is supported well too. I'd go with Azure if you are doing development in .NET. Both Azure and AWS seem to have roughly the same availability. I've had outages on both platforms, but they are infrequent.
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Thank you. That was quite useful. 
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I've used both (albeit not touched AWS for several years) and found that Azure was much easier to get up and running.
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Thank you, that seems to be the common opinion.
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Thank you. I am not surprised that Azure is easier to setup compared to AWS, especially if you are hitting it from .NET. And I agree, years of Microsoft centric development can put you into a mindset where anything non-Microsoft looks difficult to navigate. It's a psychological block in my opinion than anything else.
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I don't really have experience in either (although I've seen "some" Azure and it looks great).
However, what I've been hearing about Azure is that it's really been catching up to AWS in the past two years or so.
So if people choose AWS over Azure one or two years ago because it was so much more mature than Azure that might not be true anymore 
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I worked with a Linux person that badmouthed Azure's Linux offering because it took several minutes to spin up a VM. He was working toward "servers as cattle not servers as pets" and wanted to be able to replace the prod environment quickly as soon as a problem was detected.
I actually faced a MSFT rep and showed her the difference between spinning up a CentOS machine on Azure [~2 minutes] vs. Digital Ocean (I think) [45 seconds].
That's from memory, but the difference was between one and three minutes. Timing is just for the machine to be available - I used the interface, using powershell may be faster.
(They never gave me the keys to AWS so that's all I had - don't know the AWS time.)
She didn't have a good response - but she was new and that was a year ago so YMMV.
Hope that's helpful,
-Chris C.
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Useful info, thank you.
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I ran across something about reserve instances, it sounds relevant, but to be honest I'm more of a dev than a devOp person these days (at this job; everything subject to change!).
Also, the 'better than per-second billing' in Azure where the round down to the nearest minute may be important if you're servers blip in and out of existance (345 seconds would be billed as just five minutes).
Full disclosure I do have an Azure personal preference because it is so easy to spin up and use sql server and .net.
HTH,
-Chris C.
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Need to download Xampp, Google lists me these options. which site feels more authentic? (without bloatwares & trojans)
CNET[^]
Sourceforge[^]
Softonic[^]
Or any other good source is there?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Looks like they are the creator of Xampp. If not them, then whom else I'd be trusting. lol going with it. thanks
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Avoid Softonic. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I recommend against any XXXamp link.
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Rage wrote: XXX
That would be interesting
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Will check them, thanks
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Maybe I'm old school, but I still prefer individually installing them. To me, the stuff these "take care of everything for you" packages do simply adds extra clutter on top of what you have to learn to work with anyway. So now, not only do you need to learn Apache for instance but you also have to learn what the XAMPP project did with Apache.
It's like a convenience store, their prices are a bit higher. You always pay for convenience in form or another. In this case it's when something goes wrong and having no idea where to look for a problem.
Anyway, just my two cents. It took me forever to embrace NPM and I'm still on the fence about using NuGet willy nilly without a care to the wind. So you know my bias.
Jeremy Falcon
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It was suggested by the devs. May be they thought I'm too old or lazy to install things by myself. I don't like the bundle-wearez too. And I specifically watch out for hidden tickmarks & autoselected options during the installation wizard.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Hi All,
Beign that I am of the if it doesn't stop me I will live it attiude, I appear to have dropped someone in it unintentionally. The person in question is an OK guy but... he didn't show up Friday after I had cleared the deck to give him a hand... got a little bothered by that (he didn't phone, email, Hipchat, send smoke signals) so wasted a day (it was POETS day after all, so I did). I just feel bad for the guy that I started the where is X and someone from training came looking for him and my Boss who was working from home. Sorry for the long post 
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