Hacker News Reader

Comment by _m8fo | Hacker News Reader

I hope Microsoft uses some of that profit and fixes Azure Blobs. I was hoping to use them instead of S3 for static site hosting (ended up going with Gitlab) and it doesn't support even the most basic of functionality. [1]

[1] https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217298-storage/suggestions...

View on HN

This might not meet your needs but you can use Azure App Service (free) to host a static website

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/acoat/2016/01/28/publish-a-...

EDIT: also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31653643/how-to-deploy-a-...

I would not expect it to get implemented soon. It is not a very common use case. I don't think there are a lot of people/businesses run static HTML websites. So unless someone at MS convinces themselves that this is indeed a nice-to-have feature, it probably won't get implemented.

Same thing happened with ICMP (ping) support in Azure: Azure does not support ICMP. I personally expected this feature to get implemented for 4 years I worked there because I needed it myself many times. Turns out people can totally live without it and it is not a deal breaker. Last week this request got rejected for a foreseeable future. https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217313-networking/suggesti...

For instance, Google Cloud Storage (GCS) support static websites, and in addition you can use the "gsutil rsync" command, which works just like rsync to upload your website with the Google Cloud SDK. I was impressed when I first found that out. And it works out of the box just fine, I'll migrate my website to this soon.

Disclaimer: former Azure employee now working at Google.

Seems like the best you can really do is have a micro instance running nginx with some reverse-proxy rules. Which is a bit of a shame. It looks like you can't even do what you want with Azure Functions.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com