Microsoft’s Azure Pricing Is Not Friendly for Solo Developers

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Or you can just take a free azure website hosting and take external domain + ssl with dns provider + namecheap.

Hm, could you provide more info on that type of a configuration? From what I can tell it doesn't exist.

That would be a great setup, unfortunately SSL is not available on the free-tier Azure hosting. Also custom domain is not available on the free-tier hosting either, so you have to use the "Basic plan", which is $56/mo for just the hosting.

Here is the detailed pricing link: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service...

You can do a CNAME to your azure subdomain.

Unfortunately I'm not seeing how that's the CNAME+SSL is possible on the free tier.

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2013/12/13/securing-your-win...

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