Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Cloud Cover Episode 27 - Combining Roles and Using Scratch Disk http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/c2ee/13906a78-c8e1-4c8a-a4c9-9dfb000cc2ee/CloudCoverEp27_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - Cloud Cover Episode 27 - Combining Roles and Using Scratch Disk Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at@cloudcovershowIn this episode:   Learn how to effectively use the local disk (scratch disk) on your running instances.Discover how to combine your roles in your Windows Azure services Show Links: Announcing the 'Powered by Windows Azure' logo programAnnouncing Compute Hours Notifications for Windows Azure CustomersASP.NET Security VulnerabilityWindows Azure CompanionMaximizing Throughput in Windows Azure Part 2Web Image Capture in Windows Azure en Mon, 20 May 2013 14:34:30 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 14:34:30 GMT Rev9 Re: Cloud Cover Episode 27 - Combining Roles and Using Scratch Disk Great show. It does bring up an issue about Azure not being priced very well right now for small applications. Running a blog using 3 instances would cost you $0.12 x 3 x 24 x 30 = $259.20 a month at the standard retail rate (plus storage and transaction costs). Even dropping down to 2 or 1 instances (with periodic downtime for maintenance) puts Azure outside the price of most hobby or enthusiast sites when compared to other VM or shared-hosting offerings.

I wish Azure had an option for a smaller VM size like the $0.03/hr Micro-instances from Amazon EC2 that are perfect for lightweight websites. Then add the ability to do live upgrades between VM sizes so that users can auto-scale as needed. Better yet offer reduced pricing for bulk purchases (ala Reserved Instances) so that there is an incentive to use Azure for 24x7x365 applications. As it stands right now Azure's entry price points are a bit too high compared to other PaaS offerings, which is a shame since it is a beautiful platform.

posted by gbrayut

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634212243760000000 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:46:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634212243760000000 gbrayut Re: Cloud Cover Episode 27 - Combining Roles and Using Scratch Disk Agreed with gbrayut. It's a wonderful platform but a little pricier than alternatives. 

posted by writeameer

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634213231380000000 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:12:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634213231380000000 writeameer Re: Cloud Cover Episode 27 - Combining Roles and Using Scratch Disk Hey Ryan & Steve,

Redeploying the Application for a Configuration change isn't quite the best scenario.  I would suggest updating the cscfg using visual studio, then digging into the Debug (or Release) folder and get the configuration file which could be updated using the Web Portal [http://windows.azure.com].

Reploying would bring down the application (unless it was uploaded to staging then hotswapped, which requires logging into the Portal anyway) not to mention it takes quite a long time to upload the entire application for a change that is literally a few bytes in size.

Just a war of words, but you guys always do a great job of clarifying things.

Happy Clouding!

Cory Fowler

posted by SyntaxC4

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634213886540000000 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:24:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634213886540000000 SyntaxC4 Re: Cloud Cover Episode 27 - Combining Roles and Using Scratch Disk @SyntaxC4: I think I agree with you.  However, I am not totally sure of the context.  Did we say to upgrade your role for a config change?  I don't think we meant that if we did.

posted by dunnry

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634214237310000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:08:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634214237310000000 dunnry Re: Cloud Cover Episode 27 - Combining Roles and Using Scratch Disk posted by Ryan CrawCour

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634243801690000000 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:22:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Cloud-Cover-Episode-27-Combining-Roles-and-Using-Scratch-Disk#c634243801690000000 Ryan CrawCour