On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > Damn it. Now I can't use cost as an excuse for not getting off my arse and > learning more about Azure. Ok, I've put it on my list of things to learn, > right after Db. > > http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13639/Db-The-Future-Is-Coming > http://thenextlanguage.net/ > > I'm really excited about the possibilities of Db, especially the tooling. >
Zzzzzzzzz... > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Special offer for MSDN Subscribers: >> >> If you are an existing Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate >> with MSDN subscriber, you get free access to Windows Azure each month, and >> up to $3,700.00 in annual Windows Azure benefits at no charge. >> >> This offer provides a base level of Compute, Storage, Content Delivery >> Network, SQL Azure database, Access Control, Service Bus and Caching each >> month at no charge. Customers can use these Windows Azure subscriptions for >> commercial use. >> >> >> >> From >> http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn-benefits/ >> >> >> >> Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, 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] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of David Burela >> Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 5:43 PM >> To: ozDotNet >> Subject: Re: The cost of putting small websites online >> >> >> >> "The T&C on the MSDN credits for Azure, don't they state that you can't >> put production sites on it, only development sites?" >> >> >> >> Looking around, I can't find any specific details on if you can use the >> MSDN credits for production use. >> >> https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn-benefits/ >> >> On 2 April 2012 17:31, David Burela <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The T&C on the MSDN credits for Azure, don't they state that you can't put >> production sites on it, only development sites? >> >> >> >> -David Burela >> >> >> >> On 2 April 2012 16:58, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <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 >> >> >> >> > >
