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Just curious. I am interested in Azure Cloud. Currently I have a single droplet static site web server on Digital Ocean. I would like to create a FreeBSD VM on Azure and host it there. I do not have much traffic. DO I am paying about $11 a month. Any pointers on how I could calculate the Azure cost if I moved?

Answer 1

Hi @Ron Georgia

The cost of running FreeBSD on Azure is a combination of the selected software plan plus the Azure infrastructure costs of the virtual machines on which you will be running this software. Your Azure infrastructure price might vary if you have enterprise agreements or other discounts. Costs might vary by deployment region.

Pricing for FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE starts at $0/hour (+ Azure Infrastructure costs).

Since you mentioned you would like host a web server on Azure VM with FreeBSD on it and the static website doesn't generate much traffic, you can go with the B-series Azure VMs.

B-series burstable VMs are ideal for workloads that don't need the full performance of the CPU continuously, like web servers, small databases and development and test environments. These workloads typically have burstable performance requirements. The B-Series provides these customers the ability to purchase a VM size with a price conscious baseline performance that allows the VM instance to build up credits when the VM is utilizing less than its base performance. When the VM has accumulated credit, the VM can burst above the VM’s baseline using up to 100% of the CPU when your application requires the higher CPU performance.

This documentation on General purpose virtual machine sizes will help you make a decision on which VM size is best for you.

The cost of each VM can be found when you select a VM size in Azure Portal as shown below or you can use the Pricing Calculator to get an estimate.

Introduction to FreeBSD on Azure article gives all the information you need to know about running a FreeBSD virtual machine in Azure. You can create it using Azure CLI or from Azure Marketplace on Azure Portal.

Here is an article on Digital Ocean vs Azure which you may find helpful in understanding what each cloud has to offer : https://www.upguard.com/blog/azure-vs-digitalocean
Learn more about deploying a website with Azure virtual machines : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/deploy-a-website-with-azure-virtual-machines/

Hope that helps. Let me know in the comments if you have any further questions.

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