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Deploying Azure Web Apps

Since the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990, web sites have been hosted on servers, or web servers to be more specific. A web site is hosted on either an on-premises server or a server hosted by a service provider. So it seems that cloud computing was here since day one of the Internet, and it’s not entirely a new concept. It’s the same idea of hosting a web site on a service provider’s server, but it was developed and enhanced to expand from just a web site to virtual machines, virtual networks, databases, and so on. So, if you want to compare traditional hosting methods to today’s cloud computing, think ...

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