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I'm pretty sure, from a safety point of view, that Microsoft has a lot more in place than some "Mike" who can host me a server.
Buying your own server is the most expensive and most difficult solution BY FAR and scales really bad.
You can stay paranoid or you can get with the times.
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App - You mean a Mobile app that consumes .net Web-Apis from Azure?
Or an Asp.net web App?
On any case, Azure WebApp + Azure SQL does a real decent job.
The very basic ones does cater to a very decent number of client calls + there's a lot of perf metrics available on the dashboard. You can monitor them live. it's amazing.
& setting up custom domains + CORS + Diagnostics, logs are all piece of cake
And you can easily add Schedulers, Jobs to your WebApp. They costs less too.
SQL -the basic standard one (Lowest one) does okay, but the response speed would be slower, even for a normal query. You'll have to pick and choose the right BOX after doing some performance tests.
You can just switch the boxes in minutes, all these work in pro-rata basis. So you wont be billed heavily just because you tested a higher config SQL boxes for few mins.
And soon you'll land in a requirement that expects you to store something in File format.
Azure blobs would be just few clicks away. They are one of the most useful things I've used on a server.
And most important point - I've never had any kinds of DDos attacks in Azure (touchwood!).
Not sure why, but it's happened in all the other non-cloud service providers I've used like goDaddy, Hostgator etc. And these guys simply lock your site without consulting you.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I'd go with Azure. You can scale up/out in future, add more services etc. with relative ease.
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Reminds me of an old friend who pays me to help him "debug" the complex ASP pages he doesn't understand. Refused to use/learn SVN because operating without a safety net, on a production machine was his "thing".
I finally refused to help him, and explained I do not need the stress... He finally learned SVN and how do do things properly, and now he apologizes on a regular basis for making me work without a safety net, etc. (Oh, and he can test on his own machine easily now)...
Moral: Always do things the right way from the start! Proper tools. If it isn't worth that, it isn't worth doing!
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I wouldn't say a server isn't the right tool or thing to do 
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What you need is just create a web app in Azure, use the free shared model and only upgrade that if it does not perform as needed.
You can just create the app in Visual Studio and connect to your Azure instance to automatically create the instance and publish your app.
Add a database project to your solution to simplify deployment of new versions of your database structure.
Its easy and requires minimal learning to start.
Enjoy,
rob
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My only experience is with Application Insights, and all I can tell you is that it's massively verbose, so I always disable it for development. It totally takes over your output window hiding your own debug statements, if you do things like that.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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I would go for Azure every time. Reliability and scalability are excellent and if necessary can have geo replicated sites and databases. There really is no upside to running somewhere other than the cloud nowadays.
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If you hold the door for a clown, is that a nice jester?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I pity the fool!
veni bibi saltavi
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Has to be read in the voice of BA-Vilmos 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Do joker?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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no sure I'd do that for It.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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two seconds, two flipping seconds.
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Is that Pennywise or pound foolish?
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you hold the door for a clown, is that a nice jester?
No, it would just have been my former boss, a very evil clown indeed.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you hold the door for a clown, is that a nice jester?
FIFY: If a clown holds the door open for you, is that a nice jester?
Is a comedian a girl who swa . . . (never mind).
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No it's a nice jester if the clown holds the door open for you.
If there's an OriginalGriff, is there also a DerivativeGriff?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Why would you do that? The Bozo wouldn't do it for you!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Saw this "Important Warning"
Firefox's latest update (57.0.1) aggressively tries to reset your default search engine to Google!
First glance looks like a pissing contest,
but more correct term would be: "a pissing-off contest."
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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 I was just about to go back to FF. Now this!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'm about to throw it out because they FUBARed most of the things I liked to use. But what are the alternatives?
Mickeysoft IE? Thanks, keep it.
Mickeysoft Edge / Win 10? Thanks, keep them.
Google Chrome? Thanks, keep it.
FF is on its way out and right now I see only Opera and Vivaldi as possible candidates.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I really liked the information that the Presto based Opera provided, now it's just another face of Blink.
Haven't tried Vivaldi, wiki makes it seem like it was because of Opera leaving Presto; but it in itself is Blink based.
Time to break out Netscape 9, Mosaic, and Lynx
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I've been using Vivaldi for a year or so, it really does capture the spirit of the old Opera.
I can't promise it'll capture all of the things O12 did that you miss in rival browsers but it did so for me.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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