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Free ASP.NET MVC Hosting Site-- Is there Any?

I am looking for a free ASP.NET MVC hosting site.

I know, I know, I might be coming up with a ridiculous request: MS servers cost money, and they are damn expensive, so I shouldn't be expected to get free ASP.NET hosting. The most is I can get best quality or most affordable hosting site, but free? Highly unlikely.

Still, I want to ask my fellow SOers, is there a free ASP.NET MVC hosting site? I just want to deploy my MVC app for fun. I don't expect to make money, or to expect high traffic from that site. All I want is a place where I can upload my app for free, so that I can play with it in production environment ( instead of dev or test environment, which is boring to begin with). Of course if the app took off I won't mind to pay for the storage and bandwidth.

So I just need a minimal package that is free, that's all. Any recommendation?

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Azure is free for now - so if you're just looking for something to play around with, it might work for you. Beware though, it will not be free forever, and MSFT has yet to announce pricing.

Bramha Ghosh  2009-06-07 14:46:35
Could you provide short how-to for this?
Arnis L.  2009-06-07 15:03:32
Azure is not a simple hosting provider. You to develop an app using the SDK and deploy it in the "fabric", which allocates computing resources to your app based on demand. The learning curve seems to be pretty high, and I don't even think they support SQL Server, instead they have storage options that appear to be similar to Amazon's SQS, S3, and Google's Big Table.
DSO  2009-06-08 05:42:47
Sounds that you are correct about learning curve. Got to write down "Azure" at my "To check out" list.
Arnis L.  2009-06-29 22:30:22
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Another playground

Arnis L.  2009-06-29 22:32:08

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