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I bought 3 year of SSL certificate for my website. and Windows Azure Websites does not support SSL. (They are working on it...)
I know I should have verified this before I made the purchase, but it was so obvious that, it never occurred to me.
Just to let you know that, if SSL is deal breaker for you, Windows Azure Websites are not the option for you, at-least right now. (You need to configure and use Virtual Machine instead)
And the even crazy thing is, if you use Free mode and use yoursubdomain.azurewebsites.net , wildcard SSL certificate is included for free, and when you use Paid more with yourcustomdomain.com , SSL is not supported, because they are facing some technical challenge. Which makes sense, but still crazy!
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Well, there are three ways I know of to host websites in Windows Azure:
- Azure Websites.
- Web Role.
- Virtual Machine.
The first one is the cheap/easy way to do websites. The second is the one I have experience with, and I even have a website running on it that uses an SSL certificate. It's kind of a pain to setup the SSL certificate, but it does work. I've not tried the virtual machine option, but you should be able to do everything under the sun with that. The nice thing about option #2 is that it's much cheaper than a virtual machine (though there is no free option, as there is with option #1).
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Yes, using Virtual Machine I can do anything I want. But I was using Websites in Reserved Mode, so that I can avoid the system administration part.
But I will take a look at the Web Role, if I do not have to change a lot on coding part. Thanks...
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AspDotNetDev wrote: (though there is no free option, as there is with option #1).
Azure hosting has a free entry-level option?
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Ah, no good then!
I wonder if they have anything for non-profits.
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Looking at that free trial page I just posted, looks like the web role (aka, "compute") can be used in the free trial.
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