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I've been hearing about this new fangled thing called the cloud... ... Enough crud, I do killer MVC and AJAX, etc. I have long (since classic ASP) had a portfolio site that I keep updated, especially when I'm looking for a yob. The last update was with MVC 4 (love MVC). The website is pretty cheap overall, I think I pay $80 a year for ASP.Net and have MySQL available, so I can do want I want. (I host the Cosmic Store, selling fine spaceships, weaponry and other SciFi paraphernalia). I only need the bandwidth of a good soda straw.
The point is that I only use the site about once every year, but the cost is low enough as to be ignored. Along comes Azure. I need to be practicing development there. We don't use the cloud at all..... yet. I am experienced enough to know that I had better be ready. I know that I can get a free month of usage from MicroSquish, but that will not serve my purpose. I need something that I can work on over the years as I learn new methods and as far as I understand the cheapest Azure account is about $50 a month. That is not negligible. VS 2015 is coming. Is there anyway to get a "hobby" site like I have described for cheap?
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Thanks OP for the question, and Valery for this useful response. This is something I was wondering about as well. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I think the $50 is the amount of free Azure credit you get if you have MSDN subscription - per this page[^].
I have this and typically have at least €47 balance each month...
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Be sure to delete instances if you are not using them - especially "staging" ones after new deployments. Even if they are stopped you are still paying for them.
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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OK, I'm researching this, but could you please elaborate some. This could be very useful for me and I bet, for other developers.
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If you need to back your app with a SQL database, do I have to sign up for the Database service? It wasn't very clear on the Free package.
I mean, if I sign up for 100 MB database, in the calculator, I pay U$ 5,00 a month. Is that right? There is no free package?
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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There use to be a free 20Mb database option but they've stopped it. So no free option anymore.
You can either use the database offer or create a VM with SQL Server express on it.
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I use VM's on Azure, usually cost me around £8 a month. I've tried the sites - they work well, but I prefer the flexibility to install anything else I need, copy/backup files or update config files every now and again.
The big downside of Azure sites is that you have to pay for their database services and they're pretty expensive. It seems far easier/cheaper just to install SQL Express on a VM.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I'm not an expert of web sites in general, but Azure comes with a hobby-tailored subscription for free. You can have up to 10 different web-sites, and many other stuffs, but -of course- the resources they give you are pretty limited. Way enough for an hobbist, though.
Have a read here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/[^]
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Michael Breeden wrote: love MVC
 
If you want totally free, you can set up a basic EC2 instance on Amazon. That's what I've done, and it works great, though I will say that Azure has a much simpler setup process, the configuration options aren't a sea of icons, and it seems a bit faster.
Marc
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If you want a free alternative to Azure, try AppHarbor [^]
I have no connection with them other than that I've had an ASP site on there for about 4 years now and I can't recommend them highly enough. Takes you about 10 minutes to sign up and create an app which it creates as a Git repository. Commit your code to it and their build server does the rest. If your app builds it publishes it to their cloud hosting.
There are tons of free add-ons for SQL Server, Email, Message Queues etc
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Microsoft Azure is based on a Pay-As-You-Go model, so you provide them with a credit card, and you do something that costs, they will charge you.
Give that, if you are looking to work on web development, you can have up to 10 free websites (per region, so that could be a lot, but I haven't tried going beyond 10 yet). The Basic SQL Database would likely cost you about $10 a month, though there is still a free 20-MB database available with one website.
Additionally, if you have an MSDN subscription, you get a $50 credit for Pro, $100 for Premium, and $150 for Ultimate. As Premium and Ultimate is becoming Enterprise, I'm not sure what the credits will be (though I suspect $100 Pro and $150 Enterprise).
Note that the website does not involve any special setup, configuration, etc. as Azure controls the web server. For just a website, that's fine. If you want to do more, then you can by creating your own web server, maintaining as you wish (but you will also need to pay for it).
Christopher Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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I use DigitalOcean for this kind of thing. It's not as big or comprehensive as Azure, but it's really, really cheap and seems to be reliable. They don't have dashboards to run Hadoop clusters, as far as I know. But if you just want a virtual machine in the clouds, I recommend them.
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Hi All,
I am back on the Job Market again. I had a phone call yesterday from a Recruitment Professional out of the blue (apparently I had click on the review my CV button(?)) He told me while I was not in a good position to take it in that my CV contained too many personal details and so on. Now I do agree but the 'recruitment agents' will not often entertain a CV without them. I get a feeling that was the set up for I can alter it but it will cost X pounds for it.... any idea if these so called services are worth it?
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Years (many years) ago, I hired a professional recruiter to help me write my resume. She taught me some really good [resume writing] lessons, and she even found me a job!
Nowadays though, 99% of them are vultures. Fortunately, I happen to know a couple that are actually decent human beings.
Marc
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The idea of a CV is to get some personal details; the clou is in the name.
Anything else in there is "noise".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If you need help with your CV, then email it to me. I would be more than glad to review it and give any "advice". I have never had any issues or complaints with my CV or CV format.
Good luck. 
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I have done. I think the point about letters after your name is a good one, I mean this 'guy' said what can you put after your name other than BSc. I replied MIET, Cert Something I have forgotten and he said I should use them all......
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I went through a redundancy process some time ago and the firm paid for consultants to come in, tell us all about CVs, jobs and stuff. One of them said that if a recruiter was charging you for the service then steer clear. There are plenty out there and the better ones charge the companies an introduction fee rather than the individual.
I've also been in the situation where an Agent "adjusted" my CV for a specific job interview. The questions in the interview were so off-target I had to finally ask "is that actually my CV you have there?" When the interviewer said "well, it's got your name on it" I just handed over a copy of the original (always take a copy with you!) and got the post. The adjusted CV looked the business and read really well mind - it just didn't relate to anything I'd actually done (and missed off some rather pertinent facts too)
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Pretty much the same thing happen to me, In one interview they had 'my' CV and from the brief look of it the agent had completely reformatted it and added some extra experience with the parent firm!! I did ask him about it, as he had to give me a lift to the Railway Station, his comment "Well you will thank me if gets you the job!"
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That's what I said to him!
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Unless your CV s completely sh*t, and you can't be bothered, of course they're not worth it!
I had feedback from two agencies on my CV.
- Too wordy - need to be more succinct. bullet points not prose.
- To much like a list of bullet points - need to expand and put experiences in a personal manner.
That tells me I have it about right!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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