I am currently looking to deploy a web forum on the azure platform.
I made some research and I’ve been able to find a total of 6 ASP.Net forums so far:
As far as I know:
- Telligent Community is complicated as hell to have the simplest bit of information so I’m kinda dropping this one for my research
- InstantForum.Net is a website project, which is not compatible with azure but on their forum the subject has been mentionned in may 2011, so far no new answers
- YetAnotherForum could be compatible with Azure since it is a web application project and they posted a procedure for SQL Azure deployment, also the subject have been kind of tried but I have not yet attempted to deploy the solution to confirm it
- NearForums is a new project that can be deployed to Azure but since it’s really young I am unsure and would like a more mature project
- MvcForum is still in alpha stage and is at the same level as NearForums
- No informations yet on Jibit forum
Am I missing something ? Is there other forum solutions I haven’t heard of or any other experience on forum listed here ?
The criterias that I’m looking for concerning the “support” part is that it can be deployed via web role and do not require a VM.
Have a look at the marketplace: https://datamarket.azure.com/browse/Applications?Query=forum
Several of the wider CMS offerings, such as Kentico and DNN, offer forum components that you could use. You might be able to deploy some to the new Web Sites offering, as well as the VM already mentioned.