RE: Help me with my new website!
December 9, 2018 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2018 at 9:39 pm by bennyboy.)
(December 8, 2018 at 7:02 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: That's why I recommended a CDN. Maybe look at something like Cloudflare. I used them when I was on a share server and they were exceptionally good. Now I'm on a fast VPS server, which is why I don't use them anymore. Can't say I know much about Azure VMs.
VM is "virtual machine" and Azure is the Microsoft cloud architecture. The nice thing about a VM running Windows Server is that you have 100% access to everything you would on a physical box, no limitations, and you get a Windows Desktop GUI so you can browse through your folders, edit stuff etc.
The downside is that as you scale up your Azure technology, the cost scales pretty fast. It's for sure not the cheapest available solution. The upside is that you can arbitrarily add / remove VMs, storage, security, AI modules, analytics, or about a million other things on a per-hour basis. And it all just works. This is something that you just don't get with shared hosting or with some startup running physical boxes in their basement.
"Free" sounds pretty good, though, so I'm quite curious about the F1 tier.