>> Learn how to host a static website with Azure Storage,
in this episode of Azure Tips and Tricks.
Have you ever hosted a static website
like a blog or a simple information website.
That can be a hassle and expensive.
But now, you can host static websites in Azure Storage which is
super inexpensive and really fast. Let's dive in.
First, you need a storage account,
so let's create one.
Here, I'll pick by existing resource group,
and now I can give it a name.
There we go. You need to make sure that
your storage account is a version 21 like this.
I'll leave the rest as is and created.
This can take a minute or so.
So, I'll skip ahead to when the account is created. Here we go.
This is my storage account,
and here is the static website feature.
Let's see what it's about.
It's really simple to configure,
I just have to enable it,
and I'll tell it that my index page is index.html.
This is the page that the website opens on.
I also tell it that my error page is 404.html.
You can set these pages to whatever you need
like index.php for instance.
Now, I'll save these settings. That's it.
The URLs that we see here are the URLs that points to the website.
I'll copy this one for later so that we can
test the website. All right.
So, now when I go to the Blobs section of the storage account,
I can see that there is a "a web container".
This is the container that I can upload my website files to.
I'll drill into the container,
and let's upload a file.
I've created a very simple index.html file which is this one.
Okay. Uploaded, and that's all.
All right. I'll paste the URL of the website in here,
and see what happens.
Here is my index.html.
This is the static website.
That was so easy.
Because this runs on Azure Storage,
it costs me almost nothing,
and it is incredibly fast and reliable.
Static websites in Azure Storage is one
of the easiest ways to get value out of Azure,
and it provides more advanced features like custom domains,
CDN, and SSL out of the box.
You can even use it with
static site generation engines like
Jekyll or View Press. Go check it out.