Host a Static Website in Azure in 60 Seconds

In this video I quickly walk through using a storage account to host your static website (i.e. no server-side compute required) in Azure using just a storage account.

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Architecture
01:59 Creating a storage account
03:20 Enabling static website
04:00 Uploading content
05:25 Viewing our simple website
06:05 Using alternate URL with cname

[TheRebel]

Your content has been invaluable for moving through the Azure certifications up to Solutions Architect and now I'm sending new folks to you! Thank you for training everyone!

[SuperWombus]

I’ve looked for an explanation as clear, concise, and ultra focused on simply standing up a static web page and after reading 50 dissertations on google where they first explain how to split the atom I’m SOO happy I found your channel. Many people know the technology but maybe 1% or less can actually explain it and walk through it in a helpful and informative way. You are LIGHTYEARS ahead of your “competition” thank you!

[SmallvilleJW]

That was a great video. Thank you so much, John! I have learned a ton from your videos here on YouTube & Pluralsight. You make complex things easier to grasp. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into your excellent content.

[tonyme]

Hi John. Congrats to a great series of videos. I am a trainer for Azure and I really enjoy your stuff. I will problaly be "borrowing" some of your diagramms as they are very good. Hope you won't be too annoyed.

[johnhart]

Great Reminder not to over-complicate everything....'Easy Peasy' definitely wins sometimes!

[WineTwoThree]

Again great info. Was thinking about setting up a VM in the 'traditional' way to get a webserver running, but this gives me something to think about.

[nilesh-gule]

That was a great video John. Just wondering how come 60 seconds became 760 seconds 😁

[cnchandroo]

Thanks for the quick video, it is super cool feature.

[BobbyGillette]

Very helpful, just started my LLC, time to learn how to redirect my domain to Azure so I can handle my own hosting (and work in Azure daily) - making the jump from on-prem to cloud 26 years into my career, should be fun?

:)

[oranais]

As usual, excellent presentation. Thank you.

[sid]

Hello John, can I plan to have my 3 layer application setup as . App Gateway - > Web Front End ( On Storage Account ) -> Backend App ( App service ). Talks to front up via Vnet Integration with private end point to the storage Account -> Database ( unfortunately that would be on prem for now ) so have it talk to my backend via Vnet Integration with Express Route .. Is such a arch feasible to implement ? or we can do better? thanks you :)

[bahrammaleki]

That was very cool feature . Thanks for sharing

[jitinsingh]

Hello John,
Great video as always...Just a quick question is it possible for end-users to be able to upload docs, images to the static website or make changes to existing content?

[runtcpip-morganlucas]

I did this a few months ago and suddenly forgot how. I spent about 2 days trying different things, then I came to this video and went "Oh. OH. okay!" My images still don't show but that's possibly because I also added css and javascript files. Maybe Azure just doesn't cooperate with them for static pages.

[northshorepx]

Awesome web tutorial and awesome website!

[dubey_ji]

imagine disagreeing with this guy in a meeting

[kevin]

Great video. Seems like this would be the best way to serve all our React, Angular, Regular JS and HTML pages. But I still have a lot of questions (security - why is it a good thing the server doesn't respect the documents security, load balancing). It would be helpful in your videos if you provide references to documentation.

[mrfuzztone]

How does this method compare to recent Static Web Apps? Just the use of GIT or more to the new way of doing it?

[argeelearner]

I am trying to integrate CI/CD on my static site through azure devops. Do you have any video that goes through the process?

[bailey]

How would/where would you go to get the cname or different preferred URL instead of the original endpoint?