On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Jamie Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are a non-profit or small ISV, you can get onto Microsoft > BizSpark, and through that you can essentially get Azure hosting for > 16 months for free (although you pay if you use more than they give > you, which is unlikely). > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx > --------------------------------
I love the page that has titles and costs but no definition of just what the term IS. "Small compute instance 750 hours / month" How is that computed? Remember the early days of cell phones when one company didn't waste a min of your account but only partial min on a call? Well does this consume a MIN per 1 second request, or how about 10 seconds? I know that the services that Rack Space offers are costly and M$ is not about to be under profited by anyone. The eq I got was 650 USD for a comparable 1 U server with 4 gig of ram and a single processor. Yes you could scale up and down to fit your demand. Your costs would follow suit as you manipulated your base configuration. To be honest talking with the sales team there at RS was almost as fun as root canal work. The more questions you asked the more you realized that nobody had a clue as to what might happen. Past the fact that if one of your sites or pages goes VIRAL is there a need to do this? For many a business I have to think not at this time. If you are a web 2.0 company and a picture of a kitten can go wild today and tomorrow there is only standard draw do you really need CLOUD headaches? If your company sells plastic film by the roll is the Cloud worth the added expense? I mean for my resume it looks GREAT. For the company, did it help anything? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell
