How to deploy a simple static micro site on Microsoft Azure

Question

I plan to move all my websites from my own baremetal server to Microsoft Azure. To get things started I want to do a POC and deploy a very simple static microsite - a single

Answer 1

Try steps told in this tutorial:

https://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/azureboxes/cloud-hosting-for-a-static-website.aspx

This is not like a traditional documentation. It's more of a blog post. I find it very useful.

Basically, it contains:

1. Go to https://portal.azure.com/ and create a new web app
2. Deploy site using FTP. (There are other ways too)
3. Map the Web app to a CDN for improved performance and efficiency.
4. And how to add a custom domain.