It sickens me to hear the tripe spouted here all too often that, “You get what you pay for…”, “Starting at 18 Aug 2014 17:49 UTC, we are experiencing an interruption to Azure Services, may include Cloud Services, Virtual Machines Websites, Automation, Service Bus, Backup, Site Recovery, HDInsight, Mobile Services, StorSimple and possible other Azure Services in multiple regions.” “FLOSS can’t work…”, and “developers with stock options in M$ do better…”.
How can that be when M$ is constantly patching mistakes they made years ago designing their systems according to the whims of salesmen and despite $billions in vested, can’t keep their networks going anywhere close to what a couple of good servers can do with GNU/Linux? Then there are the constant stream of re-re-reboots, malware, bugs, slowing down and endless friction due to the restrictive EULA. It’s all so sad that people keep paying this monster straight out of a “B” horror-movie. I recommend Debian GNU/Linux. It’s the right way to do IT.
See Microsoft Azure suffers Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP).
See also, The Return of BSOD: Does ANYONE trust Microsoft patches?
I come across more OS/2-Warp4-Server than I do Microsoft Server anything. Personally I don’t know anybody who uses Microsoft on a server. The overwhelming number of my webmaster “mates” use Debian or RedHat Linux. Sometimes they have a BSD machine going as well — usually in some special purpose role.