Typical cost for ghost blog on azure?

[sirvon]

Can anyone speak on the typical monthly cost involved with a ghost blog azure at various traffic levels?

Thanks

[TerribleDev]

sure, although that doesn't pertain to this particular project.

I ran ghost on 1 basic webapp service which costs around 30USD...that being said I bet it would probably work fine on the shared app pool which is only 7USD, but that is an untested assumption.

[alexangas]

I'm running it on Shared. It works fine, although does go down briefly from time to time (Shared is still in Preview I believe).

[sirvon]

Thx! Nice info about shared pool. I'm going that way. Thx for lib.

[MarkMasiak]

to stop the site going down on Azure...on the azure portal (old version) on the config tab

set:
Always On – ON
Web Sockets – ON
Platform – 64BIT
Managed Pipeline mode – INTEGRATED
PHP – 5.6
Otherwise the site goes to sleep and you need to restart it and wait 2 min for everything to kick in

[blustemy]

The Always On setting is sufficient. These are the settings I use in the Application settings on the new portal (https://portal.azure.com/):

[TomChantler]

My settings are the same as yours @blustemy. I never use 64-bit unless I have to as it wastes memory - as pointed out by Scott Hanselman: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/PennyPinchingInTheCloudYourWebAppDoesntNeed64bit.aspx

[marcomangiante]

Is there still the problem that the site goes down in shared app pool? I ask this because it is not possible to set AlwaysOn parameter for shared apps.

[TerribleDev]

you could try using a free ping service like uptime robot to keep your site alive.