Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-03 Thread mike smith
*Sent:* Monday, 2 April 2012 5:43 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: The cost of putting small websites online ** ** *The TC 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

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread David Connors
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Are my calculations correct? You're focussing on the smallest possible element of the cost of launching one of these sites. You also need to consider the ones that are going to make up 99% of the cost: -

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
Godaddy has .com registration for about US$6/year, and free DNS Agreed with David that this is probably a fraction of the cost. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burela Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 1:42 PM To: ozDotNet

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread David Burela
All the production quality issues are non-issues. The goal here is a website to support hobby projects. Trying to get the yearly costs down to support the hobby project is the #1 priority here. The best way I've been linked to so far is hosting a site on GitHub and using a mark down generator

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Joseph Clark
Bitbucket supports basic website hosting, too: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Publishing+a+Website+on+bitbucket On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: All the production quality issues are non-issues. The goal here is a website to support

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
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

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Mitch Denny
: @MitchDennyhttp://twitter.com/MitchDenny From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 4:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: The cost of putting small websites online plug If you're an MSDN subscriber

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread David Burela
*The TC 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.

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Grant Molloy
David, Why not start with shared host first? Usually much cheaper than vps! If your needs expand you can ramp up in future. Places like mochahost have reasonable costs, plus allow multiple domains, multiple database types and number for any future expansion. They even offer free domain names on

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
2012 5:43 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: The cost of putting small websites online The TC 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

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Stephen Price
993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Burela *Sent:* Monday, 2 April 2012 5:43 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: The cost of putting small websites online

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 2:26 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: The cost of putting small websites online Damn it. Now I can't use cost as an excuse for not getting off my arse and learning more about Azure. Ok

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread DotNet Dude
: The cost of putting small websites online The TC 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

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-01 Thread Wallace Turner
just a thought, have you considered EC2? If you're hosting multiple websites you can have them in the same place which *may* make it easier for you - obviously the cost savings get 'better' the more websites you add. I know you said you didnt want to be a system admin but really you get a