If you suspect abuse, the thing to do is email [email protected] so we can look at the data and investigate. Bringing it up in the threads will only provoke a tedious and off-topic flamewar, and if there isn't abuse going on, then you've unfairly maligned your fellow users.
The one area we've consistently had real issues is with static IP persistence and VM location. At times, between our portal and an RDP session I've seen up to 3 different IP's for the same VM. Our VM's invariably lose their static IP's during reboots, which is a real nightmare because some of our vendors require IP white listing. We also can't seem to confirm that our servers are geographically where they're supposed to be. If we try to geolocate a server in US-West, we variously see it in other parts of the country, or even the world.
I think you can do this from the Azure CP now, I am not 100% sure.
Your IP should not flush on reboot though, that should theoretically only occur if you're doing cold boots/shutdowns; but that's a no-no in any cloud environment unless you have a reserved IP; which is why you are encouraged to use cnames instead for domain management, etc.
As far as the region problem, this can happen if you're using something like a scale set or load balancers. That could throw off a trace route. Also making sure your storage account, etc are all in the same region is fairly important.
In other words, what makes you assume that the upvotes are 'paid' vs people being interested in the technology?
I tried to look and this is the most specific I could find: " At this time the service supports Linux containers only. Microsoft has committed to providing Windows Server Containers using Docker and Apache Mesos is being ported to Windows. This work will allow us to add Windows Server Container support to Azure Container Service in the future. "
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-servi...
However that documentation is old as you can see. I cant find any new documentation.
I did find a post on how to setup a virtual machine of Windows Server 2016 preview and use it as a container
Windows Server Containers have existed since the release of Windows Server 2016 TP4 and you can try that out on Azure if you want to experiment with early code. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...
DISCLAIMER: I work for MS as the PM on the Azure Container Service
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...
Which specifically mentions:
Windows Server Containers:
A Windows Container Host running Windows Server 2016 (Full or Core), either on-prem or in Azure.
Which I mistakenly thought was part of this offering.
I expect one-third to one-half of anything positive I read about anything on the internet is bought-and-paid-for. I guess I should assume a portion of anything negative is also bought-and-paid-for by competing interests.
We invented the first, truly open and flat, egalitarian communication medium in the history of mankind, and then destroyed it within 20 years. Twenty billion web sites, and nothing exists except Amazon, Ebay, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Good job, corporations of America. I miss the web of '94.
EDIT: Also, I have no problem whatsoever believing that Reddit is a veritable playground for companies to exercise their "reputation management." It's pretty clear that their moves in recent years were precisely to allow deep pockets to game their systems to their benefit. I think Reddit and most of their top-posters are being completely hypocritical in claiming that the system isn't stacked in favor of whoever is paying them.
Very compelling.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/henry-blodget-linkbait-slid...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/online-privacy/repu...
With Microsoft's shrinking relevance to modern computing it's a given. They have billions in the bank so they might as well spend a few million on fake upvotes to give their products an illusion of popularity.
When your own former CEO calls Microsoft's current cloud numbers "bullshit", they probably are.