Game Server on Windows Azure

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Published on 2012-09-20T18:45:45Z Indexed on 2012/09/21 3:51 UTC
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What do you guys think of using Windows Azure for deploying a custom built game server. It's being built in C#, and I want to get a few things down before stretching too far into the project.

I like the idea of being scalable, but I also know that I will never get to the scale of anything to the scale of WOW, or something quite as big. It will just be an interesting journey to test something like this.

So, will Windows Azure work for that, or is there any other services that can provide something like that?

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