by Chris Pietschmann | Nov 30, 2016 | Architecture, Infrastructure, pricing
Traditional shared hosting providers generally cost anywhere between $8 – $10 USD per month. The reason is you need to reserve some CPU and Memory resources on a VM to host your website. These are very useful for hosting dynamic web sites or applications with...
by Chris Pietschmann | Aug 25, 2016 | Development, Infrastructure
There are many excellent reasons to use Microsoft Azure to host applications and enterprise systems. There’s even plenty of criticisms on it being expensive to host small websites, however the App Service offering in Microsoft Azure does offer the ability to...
by Chris Pietschmann | Jun 3, 2016 | Marketplace, Open Source
BlogEngine.NET is an Open Source, ASP.NET blogging engine. It can easily be hosted on any Windows Server running IIS. In addition to this, BlogEngine.NET is available within the Azure Marketplace. The Azure Marketplace offers the ability to easily deploy...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 27, 2016 | Marketplace, Open Source
WordPress is an Open Source blogging platform that’s been around since 2003. It’s the most widely used blogging platform in the world. In addition to hosting your blog at WordPress.com or self hosting in an on-premises VM, you can also easily host it in...
by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 21, 2016 | Hardware, Infrastructure
The Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool allows for the necessary hosting resources of an enterprise environment to be mocked up as the appropriate Azure instances that match, then it will estimate out the total cost of hosting those resources in Microsoft Azure. The...