On 1/18/16, 7:17 AM, "Héctor A" <neverbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello guys, > > Sorry for posting this question in this group: My current company is >organising a programming contest in 3 months, and people around here asked >if Azure could be used for it. Since you use Azure for Flex I thought it >could be worth asking about it here. > > I looked into Azure, but it was like 1.5 years ago, and mainly to play >with some of the APIs provided. The people behind the event want to be >able >to set a Git repository, and some server that will allow the people to >upload and run PHP code, ASP, etc. It's going to be a contest where the >people have to use web technologies, so Flash/Flex, PHP, JavaScript, Haxe, >TypeScript, etc, etc, would be allowed, and would be nice to allow them to >upload the content to a web server. > > What do you think? Some free-limited subscription to Azure could be >enough? I don't know what you could get for free from Azure, but I will tell you that my current "cheap-as-possible" subscription is really slow compared to when I was able to get a more powerful setup via a special deal between MS and Apache. My current set up is 1 core and less than 1GB of memory. You probably wouldn't want a laptop with those specs. But that's all I'm willing to pay for right now and it is sufficient to run our builds. It just takes 25 minutes to run the Falcon build that takes 2 to 5 minutes on my 4 core 2 GB Mac. So, depending on your server needs, you may need to pay for a better set up. -Alex
