Web and Mobile

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Customers have three options for hosting Web sites on Azure. These options have trade-offs:

The Azure Web Apps service (formerly Azure Websites) offers the fastest deployment and the least work managing the platform, but deployments are limited to two-tier Web sites with client- or server-side scripting and a database such as SQL Server or MySQL
Azure Virtual Machines are best when complete control is required over the deployment and configuration of the Web server and supporting services, but they leave the most initial configuration and ongoing maintenance responsibility to the customer. This option is the only way to use a non-Microsoft OS; for example, to run the Apache Web server on Linux
Cloud Services Web roles could require more specialized coding than Web Apps but they enable multitier Web applications, which use separate application servers for performance and security; however, Cloud Services is the oldest Azure model for implementing Web sites, and in most cases it

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