Create your DotNest sites now within the Azure Portal
DotNest has been available in the Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource for quite a while. Both of these marketplaces are for people looking for Microsoft-adjacent technologies, and you could discover DotNest there. However, until now, you couldn't actually create and manage DotNest sites within the Azure Portal. But now you can!With this new integration, you can go to the Azure Portal, click "Create a resource", and from the search feature look for "DotNest" or "Orchard Core": There, you can subscribe to the Free plan, and create an Azure resource for your site:Once subscribed, you'll be able to create your site on dotnest.com by clicking the "Configure account now" button: After that, you'll be able to create your site with the familiar site editor as usual: Such sites function in exactly the same way as sites created right from dotnest.com. You get access to all the same features and pricing plans. Additionally, the site you created like this will be available as an Azure resource, just like other resources like virtual machines, Web App, SQL Server databases, or anything else. You can check it out by going back to the Azure Portal and browsing to the resource: You can get to the site editor from the "Open SaaS Account on publisher’s site" link, or by opening the Site Management Dashboard on dotnest.com. And canceling the subscription on the Azure Portal deletes the site.All of this makes it a lot easier for you to create and manage DotNest sites along your existing Azure services, and thus integrate DotNest-hosted sites into your infrastructure better. So, check it out on the Azure Portal!