One of the questions that comes up often related to Azure Websites is: How are Web Sites priced? To understand how they are priced you have to understand what a Web Site is to Azure. To Azure a Web Site, in its most simple definition, is: A single app pool tied to a single site running in IIS on a virtual machine. Now that we understand this let’s look at the pricing models. Their are three tiers: ...
Yesterday @writeameer posted on twitter a search query, using the new GitHub Code Search, showing that there are a whole lot of users on GitHub that have exposed their management certificates to the public. If you are not aware a management certificate gives you access to administer your Azure account using the Windows Azure SDK tools. Which among other things allows you to publish, change, delete, or basically cause total havoc if it fell in to the wrong hands in your Azure account. ...
As I explained about a month ago when I introduced Executify, I have launched a new website that works a lot like Azure Mobile Service Jobs except that you have more control over the jobs and you can create them in the .NET 4.5 Framework. Since then I have wanted to explain the vision behind it. Executify’s vision is to make cloud code easier and more affordable to develop and execute. Traditionally if you want to execute code in the cloud as a background task, you are left with very few affordable options and you have to pay a monthly fee even if you only use the code a few times a month. ...