choosing cloud for an asp.net e-commerce project

Question

We have an on-going e-commerce web project (both B2B and B2C) on asp.net framework 4.0. MS Sql-Server 2005 is used as a RDBMS.

The main numbers for the project capacity are:

1. 15.000 products
2. 50.000 images for products
3. 400 B2B user
4. 3000 B2C user
5. 800-1000 daily unique visitors

we are planning to host this project on a cloud infrastructure.

From a developer point of view which platform would you consider for this application?

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

I don't know why you would consider anything but Microsoft's Azure. Every component of your application uses MS products.

There are VS Azure templates to use to convert your app into an Azure app. There aren't too many differences for developing for Azure vs. web server(s).

Answer 2

Apart from MS Azure, have you considered AppHarbor?

"AppHarbor is a fully hosted .NET Platform as a Service. AppHarbor can deploy and scale any standard .NET application."

To clarify: I've never used it myself but I've heard some nice feedback about them.