Running WordPress on Microsoft Azure, Notes

Option #1 Azure Websites with ClearDB MySQL

• The ClearDB is expensive even for modest workloads.
• Mercury, not production ready - free
• Titan, small Wordpress and home-brewed apps - $42 / year
• Venus, personal Wordpress blogs or light staging application - $120 / year
• https://www.cleardb.com/store/azure

Option #2 Azure Website with Azure VM MySQL

• More complicated
• Maybe less expensive
• Perhaps start with Mercury. Then switch to this later by:
• first restoring a backup from the ClearDB to the MySQL running on the Azure VM and
• second modifying the WordPress configuration.

Option #3 Coming Soon

References

• https://www.cleardb.com/store/azure
• http://chrisrisner.com/Deploying-WordPress-on-Azure-and-using-MySQL-in-a-VM/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-mysql-windows-server-2008r2/
• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/