{"id":16143,"date":"2014-03-31T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16143"},"modified":"2014-03-31T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T18:05:59","slug":"my-aidanfinn-com-blog-has-move-to-microsoft-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16143","title":{"rendered":"My AidanFinn.Com Blog Has Moved To Microsoft Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight I completed the migration of this WordPress blog to Windows Azure.<\/p>\n

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I was having performance and health issues with the VM that I was renting from a local hosting company. The admin portal was proving to be a nightmare. I had upgrade the VM but the VM wasn\u2019t upgraded. The hard disk was filling frequently and killing MySQL, and therefore killing the WordPress blog.<\/p>\n

Why was I on a VM? Because I needed more processor & bandwidth capacity.<\/em><\/p>\n

A failure last week led me to look at my options. I\u2019ve grown comfortable with Microsoft Azure so this was the place that I decided to move to. My free \u20ac75 credit per month thanks to my MSDN account doesn\u2019t hurt either!<\/p>\n

I looked at the website hosting options but they provide too little disk space. The VMs, even the smaller ones, give you loads of disk space. I decided to fire up a cloud service, blob, virtual network and a small VM instance just for my new web server VM. I installed IIS, added the sites, installed PHP, WordPress, MySQL, and a few other bits and bobs and started the laborious process of migrating from the old VM.<\/p>\n

I could have cheated but I decided to do a fresh install. It was more time consuming, especially when I had to split the WordPress export<\/a> file into 40 smaller export files (the import of 2MB files was timing out). I added and configured all the plugins. And then the final steps:<\/p>\n