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You don't have to be eligible for a trial. Everyone can open a trial account with 200$ for 3 months. Additionally Azure App Services has a nice free tier which, if your needs are basic, might even let you run free forever. Disclaimer - I work for Microsoft.

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"Free Tier" is "60 CPU minutes / day" [1]. That's barely enough time to create the default project in Visual Studio and build it, let alone do some trial development off of it.

[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-servic...

You do the development on your computer, then deploy it to Azure. See this example:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/get-started/as...

The CPU minutes/day come from serving your site's HTTP requests and the like.

So if you put up a site on a random domain and nobody ever touches it, it won't accumulate minutes?

Not without scheduled jobs (crons or the equivalent) or always-live processes, no. If you're leaning on a runtime the server owns and your own code is never invoked, you are (or your account is) not using any CPU time.

Thank you for the explanation. I learned something today. (To be fair the site is not clear.)

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