January 24, 2015 Addison, IL

Deploying a WordPress Site on Microsoft Azure

Presented by:

Jaime R. VelezCEO & FounderWebForce1 Corp.

@jaimevelez

Please Tweet: @CloudSatChicago @jaimevelez #Cloud #Azure #WordPress

Microsoft Azure Web Sites Overview

More to come…

Microsoft Azure Current Offerings

Cloud Computing

Cloud ComputingMicrosoft Azure Web Sites

Windows Azure Web App Gallery

The WordPress Framework

WordPress By The Numbers

Easy to Find Mobile Responsive Themes

The Best Feature of WordPress is….

It’s Community

Why WordPress on Azure Web Sites

Web sites

Access to other Azure Services

Enterprise grade

High availability with SLA on reserve instances.

A global network of data centers.

Guaranteed SLA and 24/7 support.

Load

balanced Up to date Easily scale Economical

Demo: Deploying WP Site on Azure

So Easy…. Even This Guy Can Do It.

Benefits of Deploying WP on Azure

Pay for what you use

Estimating Cloud Costs

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

Shared vs. Reserved instances

Shared instances Reserved instances

Price FREE for 12 months Azure S,M,L instances

Number of sites Up to 10 Up to 100

Maximum scale 10 instances 10 instances (call support for more)

Storage 1GB (shared by all sites) 10GB (shared by all sites)

Storage transactions Unlimited (abstracted by storage subsystem) Unlimited (abstracted by storage subsystem)

SQL database Standard SQL database Standard SQL database

MySQL Includes one 20MB database Includes one 20MB database

BandwidthIngress—UnlimitedEgress—165MB/day (5GB/month)

Ingress—limitedEgress—Azure bandwidth rates (above 5GB/month)

Custom domains Not available Supported

SSL None Supported

SLA None Yes

Support FAQ, forum Email, phone, FAQ, and forum

Start Simple…. Scale when you need to.

SharePoint Online Public Site Alternative

Directly from Microsoft…

Source: http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/3027254

Demo: Azure Single Sign-On Capabilities

The WordPress Community is Awesome! Get Plugged In!

#WordPress

Search WordPress Groups on Meetup.com

Go Ahead… Kick the tires… or push the van!

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/

Thank You!

@jaimevelez

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