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Borek Bernard
Borek Bernard

Reputation: 53341

Is there an App Engine alternative for .NET? Free or very cheap plan required

I'm looking for a way to host my .NET app and if it were a Java app, I would use Google App Engine without blinking an eye. Is there a similar alternative for .NET?

Two features that are of highest importance:

I did look at AppHarbor but whenever I see "instances" I'm put off (I don't want to think in terms of renting instance time, I just want to host my code and not worry about "instances"). Also, they seem to be targeting audience wanting some kind of Continuous Integration environment which again I don't need / want.

Is there such hosting service for .NET apps?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 939

Answers (1)

Ben Foster
Ben Foster

Reputation: 34830

Most Platform-as-a-service vendors work on instances. That's one of the benefits over traditional hosting (since you can scale on demand)

I wouldn't rule out Azure completely. An extra small instance costs around £30 a month and the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles allows you to run multiple web sites on one instance.

I've never used AppHarbour but considering they'll give you a single instance free, I'd say that was a cheap startup. They don't have any requirement that you use CI but I do believe you deploy using Git or Mercurial so the deployment experience isn't quite as "nice" as Azure (not that Azure's is perfect by any means).

Typically however, "fast, reliable and cheap" won't come together.

Upvotes: 1

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