Speed and Support Matters
Sure. You can put up a website on a hosted or on-premise environment. You can then spend hours a month patching, monitoring, configuring your server.
Or, sure. You can go cheap and put up a site in a low monthly cost environment.
Azure is not about that.
The Windows Azure platform is about low cost of development because you can build web services fast. Azure is about no hassle server management. Azure is about building scalable solutions to accommodate high demand when you need it and scale down when you don’t.
Content management systems from Umbraco, Kentico, SiteCore and Composite can enable you to build highly scalable web experiences on Windows Azure.
Check it out: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/free-trial/cloud-website-development/
And with Microsoft, you get that other scale. The scale of a massive ecosystem of developers and all kinds of free technical support:
https://www.microsoftplatformready.com/us/dashboard.aspx
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?prid=13496&st=1
Comments
- Anonymous
April 14, 2011
Indeed!! it is not only about cost. I have put down some thoughts around PaaS vendors and Azure .. you can find it here www.cumulux.com/.../how-to-evaluate-a-paas-provider