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I have moved everything that I host for myself or my clients to Azure. Low cost, rock solid reliability, incredible speed and easy to administer. CPU, memory and disk really are a commodity at this point.

I loved Amazon EC2 too but Azure was far cheaper for high use Windows VMs.

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EC2 is indeed very expensive for Windows hosting. A c1.medium instance on EC2 reserved for 3 years is $42/mo Linux and $116/mo Windows - that's nearly triple the cost for the same hardware!

Another option is to switch to mono and run your .net apps with EC2's Linux prices. Then it's even cheaper than Azure. This is what I did for my current project.

Right so who makes Mono? Is it primarily Microsoft developers? No. Of course not.

So where does that leave Windows for internet servers?

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