AppHarbor is super interesting BTW. I'm personally less and less of a fan of Azure's packaging and hosting model. Having lived with it for the last 3 years I think I can safely say I'm 'over it'. The git push approach of AppHarbor combined with it's unit testing feature is just too good to pass up. AppHarbor for sites and then for more complicated stuff you need to go with Amazon EC2 images (the Azure VM role is another example of Microsoft over-cooking a feature).
Hopefully Azure, with it's new executive leadership, might become a bit more pragmatic and little less religious in it's approach. Phil On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Miguel Madero <m...@miguelmadero.com> wrote: > Azure wasn't designed with this in mind. It even warns you if you only have > one instance and tells you the SLA won't apply. It's nice to do it just to > have the experience and it's always fun to play with new technology. > However, shared hosting, VPS or AppHarbor would give you better value for > your single instance, low volume site. > > The value of Azure comes when you need high availability and scalability. > So, capping your service goes completely against this. Anyway, it wouldn't > be hard to implement if we really needed this. > > If you don't have MSDN there're a few offers to get free Azure. These are > designed more to play with it for some time. > http://windowsazurepass.com/ > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/free-trial/default.aspx > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/publicsector/archive/2011/02/09/azure-powerpass-get-30-days-of-windows-azure-for-free.aspx > > The last one is for public sector, but someone told me it wasn't > restricted. > > I got one of those 750 hours of the ExtraSmall instance and I accidentally > used a Small instance instead. A few days later I got a huge $4 dlls bill. I > think the last one doesn't require your credit card so it's safer to use if > you're concerned about getting charged. > > > > Miguel A. Madero Reyes > www.miguelmadero.com (blog) > m...@miguelmadero.com > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Stephen Price > <step...@littlevoices.com>wrote: > >> +1 for the "Stop when it costs me money" checkbox. >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:52 AM, <carl.scarl...@bankwest.com.au> wrote: >> >>> It would be great if there was a configuration checkbox that says “Stop >>> when it starts costing me money” to provide some confidence for developers. >>> >>> >>> >>> Carl. >>> >>> >>> >>> Carl Scarlett >>> >>> Senior .NET/WPF Developer, UX Designer | Genesis >>> >>> *IT & Change Management |** **Bankwest* >>> >>> A: Level 5, 199 Hay Street | Perth | Western Australia | 6004 >>> >>> P: (08) 9449 8451 >>> >>> M: 0408 913 870 >>> >>> E: carl.scarl...@bankwest.com.au >>> >>> >>> >>> *AFR Smart Investor** Blue Ribbon Awards** >>> **2010 Bank of the Year* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* ozazure-boun...@lists.codify.com [mailto: >>> ozazure-boun...@lists.codify.com] *On Behalf Of *Craig van Nieuwkerk < >>> crai...@gmail.com> >>> *Sent:* Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:39 AM >>> *To:* ozAzure <ozazure@lists.codify.com> >>> *Subject:* Re: Test >>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, if you spin up another instance or role then it will go over. Also >>> if your site becomes very popular then it could go over the limits, but I am >>> guessing you would need > 1000 UV's a day before that happens. >>> >>> >>> >>> Also now with Azure you can run multiple sites on the one Web Role so >>> this can allow you to host several sites for the same cost. >>> >>> >>> >>> Craig. >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Price <step...@littlevoices.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Ok well that sounds good. 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