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Azure for Visionaries
When you run a high-tech startup, you dream about customer base growing beyond your wildest dreams. Well, that's what you have to do to attract investors, and that's the whole point of running startup business.
There are many solutions for software scalability and load balancing, but, until recent, hardware was a major headache. It is nice to buy a lot of server, but, the truth is, you will not need them immediately, and you cannot sincerely say when your customer base will be big enough to justify the spending. But if you have just a single hosting server, how do you convince your investors that you really think big?
Investors are not the biggest problem indeed. You got to be prepared for the day, when all the hard-earned customers come to use your services. If you do not have enough hardware to increase scalability and serve them, well, your startup will fail.
Lots of hardware leads to higher administration costs. Building and maintaining load-balanced systems is not straightforward. Don't forget backups and duplication to make system reliable. It is all doable if you have enough resources. But there is a better way.
Microsoft Azure is new cloud-computing/load balancing platform implemented and hosted by Microsoft. Cloud computing means that there is a servers farm, and your application can run on multiple servers at the same time, and you can have as much computing power, as you need. It is:
- Scalable – now you are ready for your dreams come true. Even if all of the customers you ever dreamed of come to your web site, it will handle the load. There are plenty of powerful servers in the cloud, and it will automatically balance the load among then.
- Reliable – all your data and software at any point is duplicated on three different servers. Hardware failure will not affect your customers. What if your software get crashed somewhere in a cloud? It will just get restarted automatically.
- Almost Zero Administration – Yes, all the set-up, back up, configuration, load balancing and other administration tasks are off your shoulders. Some businesses can save on administration as mach as they can save on hardware.
- Pay Per Use – you only pay for resources you use. If you need hundred servers to balance the load for only 5 minutes, you will only pay for these 5 minutes.
That all sounds great, but what is on the flip side? Not much. You need to adapt your software to work smoothly in a cloud. It is not that hard, especially with help of somebody who has already done it, like us.
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