azure

When I first moved my blog to Azure, there is no MySQL provided by Azure themselves, but from their partner ClearDB. But now since Microsoft already announced that they are providing Azure MySQL In-App server, though it is still in preview, I’m switching to Azure MySQL In-App, away from ClearDB.

The reason why I’m moving away from ClearDB is not because it is expensive, for my use case it is very affordable, I’m moving away because even with my Azure credit, I still have to pay for the service separately, making me not able to fully utilize my credit.

Azure’s App Service Plan D1 (Shared) doesn’t allow to use SSL and SNI, so after changed the plan to Basic B1, that support SSL, and now I can install Let’s Encrypt and use it for my blog.

However to setup everything needed for Let’s Encrypt to work and automate the process is tedious, but luckily for the this extension, stuff is easier (read easier, still not as easy as few button clicks). To get the started, get the extension.

Recently I need to transfer Azure subscription from one of my account to another one. I was using Developer Program Benefit subscription for my blog for quite some times, until recently, I just realized that I have another subscription from another Microsoft Account, so I decided to transfer that subscription to my current account, having one subscription to maintain is easier.

But my problem is that my Visual Studio Enterprise subscription was with my other Microsoft account, and I don’t want to migrate my blog over to that account, so I decided to just transfer the subscription over.

While I can’t find the link to trigger the transfer, so I log a ticket with the support to ask about how to transfer Azure subscription. The support called me all over the U.S in 2 hours, and help me through the process. It was pretty straight forward, I just need to reply the email sent by the support to both of my email address, to approve the transfer, and it’s done within an hour.

After I got my Visual Studio Enterprise subscription transferred over, it is time for me to switch my resources in Azure to the new subscription, it is quite straight forward.

From previous post, I managed to set up WordPress on Azure, so now is time to move on. To move my existing WordPress over, very obviously I need to do backup, transfer, and setup.

From my previous post about moving away from HostGator, so I’ll have to move my WordPress as well. Thankfully Microsoft given away some free credits for Azure through Visual Studio Dev Essentials few months back, so I use the opportunity to migrate WordPress from HostGator over to Azure.

At first I thought it will be a troublesome process, as I might need to setup a VM, and install PHP, MySQL myself, but actually it’s very simple to setup WordPress on Azure.