<plug> If you're an MSDN subscriber, then you get Azure usage as part of that subscription.
You can host multiple web sites on a singe Azure instance. In fact, what you might want to do is have 2 extra small instances running multiple web sites so you've got the umpteen 9's SLA. </plug> Cheers Coatsy Andrew Coates, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat/ ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of David Burela [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 15:41 To: ozDotNet Subject: The cost of putting small websites online Over the weekend I was considering "supporting websites". Websites that support the promotion of your small applications (such as phone apps). Lets say I'm making phone applications, and I just want to throw a website up to act as a landing page. Something I can direct new users to which displays an About page, have an embedded video, etc. I tried doing some calculations for how much something like this would cost, this is what I came up with AppHarbor / DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com/pricing & https://appharbor.com/pricing) Domain registration - $16 / year DNS mapping - $34 / year Website hosting - $0 Website hosting with DNS mapping - $120 / year Total $170 / year / application. Wordpress.com Domain registration - $5 / year (wordpress upgrade) Domain mapping - $12 / year (wordpress upgrade) Removal of adverts - $36 / year Custom design - $30 Total $83 / year / application Both options are probably more than I'll make on most of my small apps. And gets expensive when promoting multiple apps. I could try and get more bang for my buck and extend the site so that it can also host some supporting webservices that my application can use. Are my calculations correct? Is there another way to go about this? How do you guys go about creating small landing pages like this? ("Buying your own server" seems a very heavy handed way to go about it, and I don't want to become a full time sys-admin looking after my own server) -David Burela
