Considering Azure Services

Question

I'm about to launch a service that will be responsible for syncing data. I will have one front end web site that will have a WCF service exposed, and then one WCF service that runs internally that is responsible for handling other tasks the front end service gives it. The internal WCF service will also run constantly to execute code at intervals to perform other operations; the WCF services need to be SSL enabled. I'm currently browsing the market to see which is my best option. What plans would you guys choose out of Azure services to do this? I will have a small customer base using the web service (less then 50) for the first 6 months then grow from there. How does Azure compare feature wise and price wise to say, GoDaddy's VPS services with combined web hosting?

Answer 1

Hi,

From my experience, you could choose azure cloud service to do this, create web role for your front end website, and create worker role for your internal WCF service, please have a look at this article to understand the details about Azure Cloud Service: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-what-is/ or watch this video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Azure-Cloud-Services-Tutorials/Introduction-to-Windows-Azure-Cloud-Services, about azure pricing, please refer to http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/ for more information, if use Azure Cloud Service, it is very easy to scale up our application when the users grow, about how to scale up Azure Cloud Service, see more at: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-how-to-scale/

Best Regards,

Jambor

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Answer 2

I have used GoDaddy VPS and it was one of the under-organised hosting services I have used.

Instead I shifted to Azure managed services. It has application code that optimally utilises the resources of the system. And with the certified providers/partners of Microsoft offer end user support services.

With GoDaddy, the support is minimal even if the storage space is limited in Azure managed services.

As Azure is based on Linux kernel the latency of the server is minimized to the most minimum level.

But with GoDaddy hosting the server OS is a windows hosting.

These are few of the things that should be considered before opting for a hosting.

Regards.