Open Source CMS on Azure

Question

Can I host open source CMS like DotNetNuke or Umbraco on Azure?
Are there any special considerations to do so?

Answer 1

The closest I've seen so far is a version of BlogEngine.Net with a provider for Azure Tables that someone put together.  The providers will probably have to be rewritten for the new version of the SDK, though.  http://azureblogengine.codeplex.com/

I've seen discussion about Azure around DotNetNuke and mojoPortal sites but I think they are waiting for things to stabilize.

The issues here are mostly the same as the issues you'd run into running on any load balanced web farm.  Basically you can't write anything to the local disk besides temp data so you need to get everything configurable from SQL Azure, Table Storage or Blobs.

From what I remember of DNN, supporting uploadable modules might be the hardest thing to get working. 

Edit: Some of the new features for communicating between instances and persisting local storage between restarts may make uploadable modules possible but you'll still have to store them somewhere and figure out how to unpack and deploy them any time a new instance is provisioned.