Azure Web Sites With Custom Domains for Ten Bucks a Month

Some recent improvements to Azure have made it possible to host a web site with a custom domain for just under ten bucks a month. This is a big improvement over the previous options of either staying with the “Free” web site mode and this sub-optimal domain masking trick or moving to the more expensive “Reserved” web site mode. There’s now a new web site mode called “Shared” and this level allows you to map your custom domain name (including a naked domain) to your Azure web site.

Here’s the updated Azure portal UI with the new “Web Site Mode”:

SharedMode

I’m currently configured to use the “Reserved” mode but you can see the new “Shared” mode in the middle and details about the mode in the pop-out.

I won’t walk through the details of setting this up as the necessary steps are well outlined in the following posts:

Hope this helps,

Mark

22. September 2012 by Mark Berryman
Categories: Azure, Domains | 4 comments

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