I should have known better honestly. I've had one strike with cloud billing catching me by surprise and I'm not sure why I'm shocked it happened again. This time, however, I thought I really did plan it out, pay attention to things and asked what I thought were the right questions. Unfortunately I didn't get the full answers. This time I was stung by my shiny new SQL Azure service choice.
A while back I heard about the change in price for some Windows Azure services and the one that piqued my interest was the SQL Azure. At the time it hit me right as I needed to move around some of my hosting aspects of my site. The lure of the $5/month SQL Azure database (as long as it was < 100MB) was appealing to me. The SQL server aspect of my site has always been a management headache for me as I don't want to have to worry about growing logs, etc.
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