I am wondering if I move to azure and decide its not for me is it possible to move back to a more standard enviroment of windows server / sql server? If so, how difficult is it?
If you deploy to a Windows Azure Web Site, the deployment process is almost identical; it's just a matter of deploying your project to a different destination environment. The hardest part would be if you have a database and it has been accumulating production
data in Windows Azure SQL Database (SQL Azure), you would have to save your data or create scripts to migrate the data to the non-Azure SQL Server database.
If you are thinking about a Windows Azure Cloud Service, the differences are more substantial and would require changes to your Visual Studio solution and project structure.
There is a SYNC feature you can use to synchronise your data between SQL Azure and on-premise SQL server. So the day you think it is not for you, just hook back your website to your on premise SQL Server and move on.
Let me know if you need some indepth explanation or further questions. Hope that helps decide.
Senior Consultant
PACOCI.COM
Where Great Minds Meet to Serve You.
wheel0513
Member
193 Points
242 Posts
Moving from azure to windows server / sql server
Feb 05, 2013 05:23 PM|LINK
I am wondering if I move to azure and decide its not for me is it possible to move back to a more standard enviroment of windows server / sql server? If so, how difficult is it?
tdykstra
Contributor
4465 Points
625 Posts
Microsoft
Moderator
Re: Moving from azure to windows server / sql server
Feb 06, 2013 12:50 AM|LINK
If you deploy to a Windows Azure Web Site, the deployment process is almost identical; it's just a matter of deploying your project to a different destination environment. The hardest part would be if you have a database and it has been accumulating production data in Windows Azure SQL Database (SQL Azure), you would have to save your data or create scripts to migrate the data to the non-Azure SQL Server database.
If you are thinking about a Windows Azure Cloud Service, the differences are more substantial and would require changes to your Visual Studio solution and project structure.
rawamba
Member
14 Points
7 Posts
Re: Moving from azure to windows server / sql server
Feb 14, 2013 02:28 PM|LINK
There is a SYNC feature you can use to synchronise your data between SQL Azure and on-premise SQL server. So the day you think it is not for you, just hook back your website to your on premise SQL Server and move on.
Let me know if you need some indepth explanation or further questions. Hope that helps decide.
PACOCI.COM
Where Great Minds Meet to Serve You.