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So i’m looking for a cost affective way to host a website in a linux vm. The pricing only states the VM’s cpu and RAM. What about the space used up by the OS and apps in the VM as well as the ongoing disk usage? is this an added cost? Whats the size of the disk?
EDIT June 27, 2014 – updated pricing to be current (this answer was two years old).
Your Virtual Machines are each stored in blob storage. So, if your machine image takes up, say, 20GB, you are now paying for 20GB of storage (actually, you only pay for storage used within that 20GB disk, as Azure’s vhd’s are stored in a sparse format).
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12.5around 2.4 cents per GB (locally-redundant storage, which you’d use with vhd’s), and you actually used all 20GB, you’re talking less than 50 cents monthly. You’ll also pay apennyhalf-penny per 100,000 storage transactions. even though your VM disk volume looks like a formatted drive, its underlying storage is Blob Storage; gets and puts result in metered transactions.More details on storage costs are here.