BizSpark has to be one of the most under promoted feature by Microsoft. I think its absolutely fantastic and it boggles me why they don't make more noise around it...

BizSpark is a great program and we were excited to take advantage of free Azure hosting included with it. However we learned from our customers that there is just too much latency between the web server and SQL Azure. We found much improved performance by moving to a Storm SSD server with the web server on the same box as the database server. Very happy with that decision.

The only downside is paying for those services after BizSpark ends :)

BizSpark is awesome! My company wouldn't be around without it.