(April 5, 2018 at 9:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Azure runs virtual machines. So short answer-- right; my server is basically a VPS. Long answer-- there's a lot more to Azure than the FPS. You can pick up or drop all kinds of apps, services, analytic tools, etc. etc. that I wouldn't normally consider part of a VPS. I strongly recommend signing up for a free month. Maybe you can look at some of the features and let me know if you think they're just BS, or if there's more going on there.
When I migrated the site, I planned for it to be temporary. However, the site actually runs faster from the cloud than it did on my (admittedly shitty) small 3rd-party-provided server. I'm paying a pretty penny for it, but in my company budget, $100/month compared to say a day of downtime or some unexplained crashes is just not worth trying another solution.
So VPS with some bells and whistles. I don't really need to sign up for a free month, because unless I'm going to consider paying for it after, there's really no point. I mean, I just looked at the pricing calculator. For what I pay $40 a month for now (4 CPU, 8GB RAM) they are charging $139.43. Plus, that only comes with 40GB of "temporary" storage, whatever that means. If I want to add 128GB of space (current VPS has 160GB) it would cost another $5 a month.
No amount of fancy bells and whistles are worth that much for me, I don't have any use for them. With a regular Linux VPS, I can install a web server in 10 minutes, I have a load of config files that I have backed up from previous servers which I can just copy / paste across. Applications aren't that hard to install if you know what you are doing.
