Azure price cuts, now with node.js and MongoDB

Re:Azure price cuts, now with node.js and MongoDB by ww520 on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @04:54AM (#3347050)

Good news. More competition is always welcomed. Hopefully this put pricing pressure on other cloud vendors.

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Re:Azure price cuts, now with node.js and MongoDB by rbanffy on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @08:15AM (#3347360)

I don't see any of my sites moving there until they start offering Linux nodes, which will, in all certainty, never happen.

How does it deal with autoscaling? If, for some reason, some property goes viral and starts to get too much traffic, what will it do?

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Re:Azure price cuts, now with node.js and MongoDB by balakk on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @08:39AM (#3347416)

> until they start offering Linux nodes, which will, in all certainty, never happen.

I wouldn't be too sure - it is a serious gap in their offering, and MS can be pragmatic if it's to their advantage.

> How does it deal with autoscaling?

It doesn't, you've to do it yourself. What they do is make it (relatively) easy to spin-up new instances. There are also tools/frameworks that automate some of the tasks.

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Re:Azure price cuts, now with node.js and MongoDB by rbanffy on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @08:51AM (#3347444)

> MS can be pragmatic if it's to their advantage.

That's one point. I can't imagine any circumstance in which this would be advantageous to them.

> What they do is make it (relatively) easy to spin-up new instances.

Cool. Sometimes you are gifted with an application that will only run on Windows and nothing else.

When life gives you lemons, get salt and tequila.

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