An ornate turquoise front door set in a carved facade, flanked by wall lanterns, potted topiary and flower beds

Azure CDN, Front Door and the cost

So I recently did something that I didn’t expect to have financial consequences. I switched from Azure CDN to Azure FrontDoor Standard. Sounds like a simple thing to do considering Microsoft was suggesting I do the move - move from one product to another. Unfortunately the implications were that I would now have to pay £34 per month to ensure my blog was running smooth! This is up nearly 33 times what it cost me before! And the warning didn’t actually tell me that there was a base price involved. ...

April 25, 2025 · 3 min · 619 words · Eakan Gopalakrishnan
Goodbye

Good Bye Wordpress. Hello Hugo on Azure Storage

In May 2020, having realised that my role at work had stabilised a bit, I decided to get back to blogging again. I had learned so much over the years and had not really made an effort to share any of it. Not that I have a million followers waiting to read what I share. But for me, it meant, having to think about what I learned again and explain it in a way that another person can understand. An excercise in communication. ...

April 4, 2021 · 12 min · 2519 words · Eakan Gopalakrishnan
Pages flying in an arc from a stack of paper on an old laptop to a new, glowing laptop

Moving a blog to Wordpress

“01119 (304) 08-09-2009 Curley Cattle Transport - Mack Prime Mover 02-CCT + 3 trailers for cartage of cattle in a yard in Burke Development Road, Normanton, Queensland, Australia.” by express000 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 When starting this blog, I really hadn’t done enough research onto which platform to start blogging. I previously used to post some of my daily work problems on blogger. ...

September 28, 2020 · 2 min · 251 words · Eakan Gopalakrishnan