Web servers on Azure Labs

Daniel Cregg 0

I want to create a lab of LAMP webservers using Azure lab services. I have two issues. 1. The cheapest machines are 20cent an hour. I want to keep the webservers running for 3 months. I need cheaper low powered options. 2. I want public ips for each machine.

vipullag-MSFT 23,946 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-05-20T05:31:25.7266667+00:00

Hello Daniel Cregg

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform, thanks for posting your query here.

To create a lab of LAMP webservers using Azure lab services and address your concerns:

For cheaper and low-powered options, you can consider using Azure's B-series virtual machines. These virtual machines are cost-effective and provide burstable performance, which means they offer higher CPU performance only when needed. B-series VMs can help reduce costs while still meeting your web server requirements.

To assign public IPs to each machine in your lab, you can leverage Azure's Azure Load Balancer service. By creating a load balancer and configuring it with a public IP address, you can distribute incoming traffic across your LAMP webservers. Each webserver instance behind the load balancer can have a private IP, while the load balancer exposes a public IP for external access.

By combining B-series VMs with an Azure Load Balancer, you can achieve cost-effective and scalable LAMP web servers with individual public IPs for each machine.

Hope this helps.
Daniel Cregg 0 Reputation points

2023-05-20T08:34:33.5333333+00:00

Hello, I think we are getting wires crossed here. I am talking about your labs.azure.com service. There is minimal configuration options available. Machine sizes are chosen based on cost and the cheapest is about 20c an hour. Also there is no options to configure IP addresses. I want all machine to be accessable externally via a public IP. Each student is developing a webpage on their own server. I want to to get their own domain names and secure certs so they will all need there own personal public IP for their Lamp server.
vipullag-MSFT 23,946 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-05-29T05:44:09.6433333+00:00

Hello Daniel Cregg

Apologies for the confusion.
Just checking in to see if you got a chance to see previous response from AirGordon.

If the suggested response helped you resolve your issue, please 'Accept as answer', so that it can help others in the community looking for help on similar topics.

1 answer

AirGordon 7,105 Reputation points

2023-05-20T20:08:53.1+00:00

Labs.Azure.com provides a specific environment aimed at classroom scenarios. If there are 10 students that each use the VM for 10 hours per week, then you pay for 100 VM hours for that week, not 1680 hours.

If your requirement is better suited to a more fully featured Azure environment (needing more flexibility on VM’s and features) then you’ll find a larger selection of VM Sku’s available in using a full Azure subscription.

If you need the labs.azure.com scenario, but require additional features for your use case, then there is a feature suggestion area here : https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/forum/502dba10-7726-ec11-b6e6-000d3a4f032c
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