Azure Support » Open Source http://www.azuresupport.com Windows Azure Tutorial Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:32:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 [News] WordPress demo working on Azure http://www.azuresupport.com/2009/11/news-wordpress-demo-working-on-azure/ http://www.azuresupport.com/2009/11/news-wordpress-demo-working-on-azure/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:21:54 +0000 azuresupport http://www.azuresupport.com/?p=37 At PDC Matt Mullenweg demonstrated an self hosted WordPress install running on Azure. Seemed very strange to see on of the nets largest LAMP apps running on Azure.

Microsoft has made big leaps in the past few years with running PHP and even MySQL on IIS. The WordPress installation Mullenweg demonstrated was running on Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Whilst Mullenweg said there were no plans to move WordPress.com (the hosted WordPress service) to Azure he did say the they were testing Azure for blob storage.

Read Matt’s post on this demo here .

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