How to host a html application on Azure

Question

I have a single page html application that uses a lot of jQuery. The contents of the application (data in the form of xml and multimedia audio / video / image) (and should be) provided by blocks on the azure account. I do not need an application server.

What is the recommended way to host such a one-page html application in a Windows Azure environment (Azure required).

Since I do not need an application server, all application files are currently loaded into a separate container as Blobs with the corresponding content types. Everything works very well.

However, I saw that Azure has some web hosting features that ask me the question, is it what I did for me?

thanks

Answer 1

Windows Azure websites will work well and may be free for a while. If the limitations of the free offer do not work for you, you can easily scale.

You can also save your home page to Azure storage, but that means users must have a full path to it, as there is no server configuration to specify the default page. Publishing your site's endpoint via the vanity URL of bit.ly or the like may make this unrelated to the problem.

Remember that, having everything in the blob repository, you assume the transaction cost for each image, each page, each script access (which are not cached in the browser). Depending on the nature of your site and traffic, it may be more economical to use something like the Windows Azure Web Site for some of them.