There are some other cloud topics but they aren't this, or they're asking you to offer a SaaS model (which is probably commercially unsustainable and commits you to providing data security which is a bad business to be in).
I just licensed up the server the other day on Microsoft's Azure, but the listed system requirements for memory listed for the server push it into a relatively large VM image, which has a cost of a few hundred USD a month to operate.
I'm not really willing to figure out how far this can be reduced because my day job involves providing resolutions to end-users as a mediator to software developers who often times don't consider edge cases.
My team is geographically distributed (Japan/North America/England) and we're using Azure's point-to-site VPN to help protect assets stored in the cloud.
Ideally, it would be possible to deploy the server service alone then manage it entirely from another machine, which should help. Azure and AWS both list memory limits per tier on their public websites and they change from time to time, but for reference on Azure, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 97896.aspx .
For what it's worth everything was deployed on an A3/Standard Azure VM over remote desktop and is working fine behind the VPN.
Thoughts?
Thanks.