Web Hosting services for Windows Azure: Building Web sites from the Open source suite

Windows http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13357.html ">azure was updated in the spring of 2012/06/07, bringing a new service-site hosting. This feature allows:

1. Do not write the site program, quickly from the Open Source suite (such as: WordPress, Drupal, etc.) to set up a Web site online services

2. Developers who write Web sites using asp.net, PHP, Nodejs (the author's support at the moment) have a Web site with SQL Server or MySQL to build a website
Using Windows Azure's web hosting service, there is currently a free offer to set up 10 sites (here refers to the use of SHARED mode operation, flow and storage space separately, see Calculator for details), in addition to giving a "*.azurewebsites.net" URL can be accessed , you can also allow managers to dynamically adjust the resources of the Web site. This service is still in the preview phase, but as soon as you have a successful subscription to Windows Azure, you can apply to the preview page for a consumed service. In the first case, this article describes how to use the Windows Azure service to build a Web site. (The second case will be described in another article)

5 Steps to build a Web site

When you can use the web hosting service, you can add services from the "+ new" button below in Windows Azure's management interface (written in HTML5)

Windows Azure Service Management interface

First select "web site", then select "from gallery".

Select New service from Gallery

In this way, you can choose from the Gallery of the favorite site kits to set up the site:

Choose the kit that you want to set up a website