<story><title>Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/03/31/microsoft-azure-innovation-quality-and-price.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iambateman</author><text>&amp;lt;rant class=&amp;quot;disgruntled&amp;quot;&amp;gt;
I&amp;#x27;ve used Azure&amp;#x27;s cloud hosting in production for a half dozen sites and I have to say it&amp;#x27;s driving me nuts.&lt;p&gt;We tried to flip DNS to Azure and it wouldn&amp;#x27;t resolve. It took our senior developer two days of talking to Azure support to solve. Ended up being their fault.&lt;p&gt;Today I ported some work using PHP&amp;#x27;s mail() function, which evidently Azure doesn&amp;#x27;t support?&lt;p&gt;This is probably our own fault for switching environments but we&amp;#x27;ve moved sites from Media Temple and GoDaddy to Azure and consistently had problems.&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, a price drop isn&amp;#x27;t making me any more excited about Azure. Their UI is convoluted (though beautiful, for sure) and I&amp;#x27;ve had nothing but issues with it.
&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;rant&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marshray</author><text>If you (or anyone in the this thread) would be so kind as to write up a description of some specific functionality or interactions that we can improve and email them to me (m&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;y at microsoft dotcom) I would appreciate it. I can&amp;#x27;t promise instant gratification results, but I will do my best to get your feedback to the right person.&lt;p&gt;Thanks :-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/03/31/microsoft-azure-innovation-quality-and-price.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iambateman</author><text>&amp;lt;rant class=&amp;quot;disgruntled&amp;quot;&amp;gt;
I&amp;#x27;ve used Azure&amp;#x27;s cloud hosting in production for a half dozen sites and I have to say it&amp;#x27;s driving me nuts.&lt;p&gt;We tried to flip DNS to Azure and it wouldn&amp;#x27;t resolve. It took our senior developer two days of talking to Azure support to solve. Ended up being their fault.&lt;p&gt;Today I ported some work using PHP&amp;#x27;s mail() function, which evidently Azure doesn&amp;#x27;t support?&lt;p&gt;This is probably our own fault for switching environments but we&amp;#x27;ve moved sites from Media Temple and GoDaddy to Azure and consistently had problems.&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, a price drop isn&amp;#x27;t making me any more excited about Azure. Their UI is convoluted (though beautiful, for sure) and I&amp;#x27;ve had nothing but issues with it.
&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;rant&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>city41</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had some issues with Azure too and have fought it a bit. My app is Node&amp;#x2F;Postgres based. I&amp;#x27;m pretty positive if I had developed a C#&amp;#x2F;SQL Server app, then Azure would be almost entirely smooth sailing. I can&amp;#x27;t really blame MS for targeting their own tech first. Node, PHP and the like are not quite as first class citizens in Azure yet.</text></comment>