Posted by (+10023) 9 years ago
FYI, I moved MilesCity.com from its dedicated server to the Azure cloud. There are a bunch of technical reasons why this is a good thing.
I still need to optimize some pages that previously assumed everything would be on one box w/ inconsequential roundtrip times between layers. The architecture of the site is now split between an Azure VM, Azure SQL, and an SMTP service in completely different locations. If something is slower than before, it's probably due to excessive trips between them and will have to be addressed in the future.
The new SMTP service should eliminate lost mail messages (e.g. activation messages, private messages between users, etc.) - which were sometimes being falsely identified as spam in transit, and then disappearing because of it - so that will be one improvement.
I'm a bit concerned as to how much Azure will actually cost vs. the previous dedicated server, but there's really no easy way to figure that out without giving it a go - which is what we're doing now.
If it all goes well, then I hope to eventually recode the site to the latest HTML5/CSS3 standards and add a responsive layout and such.
I don't know if I will bring the previous "dev" site back online or not. I will probably put it in Azure as another option for using the site, but I'm not going to continue developing it - since its architecture is already outdated and it would be easier to upgrade this rather than it.
Contact me if you have any problems with the site. We've been in the cloud since about 4PM PDT / 5PM MDT.
Regards, Larry
MilesCity.com Webmaster
I still need to optimize some pages that previously assumed everything would be on one box w/ inconsequential roundtrip times between layers. The architecture of the site is now split between an Azure VM, Azure SQL, and an SMTP service in completely different locations. If something is slower than before, it's probably due to excessive trips between them and will have to be addressed in the future.
The new SMTP service should eliminate lost mail messages (e.g. activation messages, private messages between users, etc.) - which were sometimes being falsely identified as spam in transit, and then disappearing because of it - so that will be one improvement.
I'm a bit concerned as to how much Azure will actually cost vs. the previous dedicated server, but there's really no easy way to figure that out without giving it a go - which is what we're doing now.
If it all goes well, then I hope to eventually recode the site to the latest HTML5/CSS3 standards and add a responsive layout and such.
I don't know if I will bring the previous "dev" site back online or not. I will probably put it in Azure as another option for using the site, but I'm not going to continue developing it - since its architecture is already outdated and it would be easier to upgrade this rather than it.
Contact me if you have any problems with the site. We've been in the cloud since about 4PM PDT / 5PM MDT.
Regards, Larry
MilesCity.com Webmaster