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[vsab]

I would have thought it would be cost prohibitive to host a live server that way. Can you PM me that PS script? I'm dead lazy hehe

[daerath]

Originally Posted by vsab

I would have thought it would be cost prohibitive to host a live server that way. Can you PM me that PS script? I'm dead lazy hehe

I'll check the pricing for a non-MSDN subscription and see what it is for the various VM configurations. It is going to be more expensive than hosting a server out of your house because you get dual purpose from a home high speed internet connection, but that's the same for using any hosting service.

Does Azure hosting cost more than Akkadius's hosting business? Probably, but then again, I haven't checked the cost compared to the various Azure VM pricing models.

Now, if you re-wrote the whole Emu to run as a series of Azure Worker roles on SQL Azure instead of using VMs, you might see a huge cost reduction, but now're you facing the difficulty of rewriting some or all of the entire Emu. That becomes cost prohibitive for entirely separate reasons. =P

I'll post the script in this thread.

[daerath]

How to install and configure Windows Azure Powershell
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/doc...re-powershell/

1. On your VM navigate to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?li...76&clcid=0x409
2. Run the file you are prompted to download. At this moment it will open the Web Platform Installer 4.6.
3. Click Install.
4. Click I Accept.
5. Wait for it to finish. Time varies based on your chosen VM size. An A1 (1 core, 1.75 GB RAM) will take a bit. On my A3 (4 cores, 7GB RAM) it went pretty quickly.
6. Click Finish.
7. Click Exit.

Get your Publish Settings file (there is also an option to use Azure AD, but I didn’t)
1. Open a Powershell window.
2. run the following command “Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile” (without quotes)
3. You will be prompted to log into your Azure Subscription. When you’ve logged in, you will be taken to a page where your subscription file is generated. Download it somewhere (I chose desktop).

For the next steps I am assuming that you named your subscription file “azuresubscriptioncredentials.publishsettings”. You can name it whatever you want, but you’ll have to put in the correct filename.

Import your Publish Settings file
1. In the same Powershell window (or a new one if you closed it), run the following command “Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile azuresubscriptioncredentials.publishsettings” (without quotes)
2. To verify installation, run the following command “Get-AzureSubscription” and you should see a page of details including your Certificate and Subscription ID.

Now, run the script. It will take a while, so don’t be impatient. =)

# Import the necessary powershell module
Import-Module "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\PowerShell\Azure\Azure.psd1"

function CreateEndPoint($portNumber, $endpointPrefix, $serverName)
{
  Write-Host 'Creating Azure Endpoint:' $endpointPrefix$portNumber
  Get-AzureVM -ServiceName $servername -Name $servername | Add-AzureEndpoint -LocalPort $portNumber -PublicPort $portNumber -Name $endpointNamePrefix+$portNumber -Protocol UDP | Update-AzureVM;
}

# Get your subscription
$sub = Get-AzureSubscription

# Set the subscription.  If you don't do this, you can't run any of the Azure Powershell scripts.
Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $sub.SubscriptionName -SubscriptionId $sub.SubscriptionId -Certificate $sub.Certificate

# Your server's name.
$servername = $env:COMPUTERNAME

# The endpoint prefix to help us identify why the endpoint exists
$endpointNamePrefix = "Emu"

# Singles
$singlePorts = @(5998,5999,9000)

foreach ($port in $singlePorts)
{
  CreateEndPoint $port $endpointNamePrefix $servername
}

# Create the 7000 - 7100 range
for ($i = 7000; $i -le 7100; $i++)
{
  CreateEndPoint $i $endpointNamePrefix $servername
}

[vsab]

I've added this guide to the wiki as it works perfectly. However, expect it to eat up your credit every month!