YES! I’m finally alive with a new hosting provider - this time it’s Microsoft (who could have guessed that!). Thanks to the just released Azure Web Sites I have now moved my blog from my old custom blog implementation (that has been a fun project though), to running Orchard on Azure Web Sites using SQL Azure. This finalizes my cloud migrations - last year I moved e-mail and everything but the site to Office 365 and started with a hosted service for this site, but for running this little blog that was a bit to expensive (you’re not clicking the ads enough).
You have to bare with me for a little while until I get everything spinning. I apologize for any inconveniences with updated posts in your blog readers and other physical or mental illness caused from this. All blog posts should have been migrated fine (I know some stuff haven’t got correctly through) keeping the old URL’s and everything. I built a quick Orchard theme and haven’t tried it in obscure browsers yet. Also Azure Web Sites is only in preview, so I expect it not to work 24/7 (my previous hosting provider didn’t have that either though…).
If you do find something peculiar, don’t hesitate to comment on it…
[Update] There seems to be an issue with Azure Web Sites/Orchard when I’m updating or adding modules, which makes the site go down for a couple of minutes. Hopefully I won’t do this as often though…