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Add to SafariWhen comparing AppFog vs Azure Web Apps, the Slant community recommends AppFog for most people. In the question“What are the best hosting services for Node.js apps?” AppFog is ranked 4th while Azure Web Apps is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose AppFog is:
Limits are based on total memory allocation, you can allocate as much RAM as you want for each instance. Even the pricing is based on the total amount of RAM allocated, $0.04/GB.
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Pros
Pro Allows multiple app instances
Limits are based on total memory allocation, you can allocate as much RAM as you want for each instance. Even the pricing is based on the total amount of RAM allocated, $0.04/GB.
Pro 24/7 live chat support
While it's true that AppFog may be relatively new and the online support is not very extensive, they offer 24/7 professional live chat support for any questions or problems you may have.
Pro Simple command-line deployment tool
AppFog has a simple command line utility to recursively push a directory to production
Pro Supports multiple data centers worldwide
AWS US, Europe, Asia, Rackspace, HP, Azure, and even Private Clouds.
Pro 10 free web apps in each datacenter
There's a free plan which provides you with up to 10 free apps hosted on each datacenter, albeit with some restrictions on hard disk size, CPU and RAM.
Pro Easily scale up and down
It's very easy to scale up or down your app in Azure. You can either scale the CPU or RAM according to your needs. There's even an option for autoscaling which lets Azure itself choose when to scale up or down depending on traffic.
Cons
Con Slow deployment
The deployment process with AppFog is generally nice and easy because of its CLI. Unofrtunately the only downside of that process is the fact that it takes too long. A deployment to AppFog genereally takes up to 40 seconds, which should be fine if you are deploying once a week, but when you deploy every hour it starts bothering you too much.
