Creating an Azure website
Azure provides a number of ways in which you can create rich web and mobile applications in the cloud. You could set up your own virtual machines, install IIS, and add your web application. If your application needs to store data, you can create a separate SQL Server VM (or use Azure's SQL database PASS offering).
A simpler way is to create an Azure Web App. Azure Web Apps enabled you to build, deploy, and manage rich websites and web applications. You can use frameworks such as .NET, Node.js, PHP, and Python in these applications and use any database software that's appropriate to your needs. An Azure Web App can be simple static HTML sites, or rich multi-tier applications that run on both web and mobile platforms. You have a lot of choices.
In this recipe, you create a simple single-page static website. You upload the page via FTP. The PSFTP third-party module makes the upload simple.
Getting ready
You run this on CL1, which you set up for Azure in the...
