Is Microsoft Azure recommended for hosting gaming sites?

Yes, it supports PHP as a PHP Developer Center of the platform. Then you can make your site without fear. Whether it is recommended or not, only you can say. My opinion would not help anything, but what can be objectively answered is there.

The platform essentially supports everything that any site needs, you will hardly miss any feature, but if you have some very specific concern, you will have to analyze point by point what they put in the documentation . The basics certainly are all there, including domains themselves. Their panel is quite different from CPanel but there is a similar and quite complete way.

Contrary to popular belief, Azure supports Linux as well.

Gustavo,

Keep in mind that the Microsoft Azure platform is much more than just a place to host websites or files.

I will imagine that you need to host a platform to support a game that you created. With Microsoft Azure you can:

• Host your game's hotsite with Azure Web App. You can scale (increase web-delivery power or increase your rendering in seconds, or even reduce resource consumption and save lots of money)
• Host Backend of your game with Azure API App. Scaling independently of the site and relocating geographically where you have more gamers.
• Extend your game to other resources without using source code with Azure Logic App. You can make twitties if the player hits a record, or even send an SMS to confirm authentication. Anyway, you can communicate your game with other systems, without worrying about knowing these other systems in depth. And without touching the source code of your game.
• Create banck-end of mobile applications in your game, regardless of platform - android, ios, Windows - in order to trigger notifications on the phones and tablets of whoever has your game app and a gamertag. >
• Back up all data from your game platform quickly, all in the cloud, as safely as possible. You can test backup recovery in minutes.
• You can create means for other developers to create side-games or other applications that talk to you with your game using Azure API Management. And create payment plans and monetize all that.
• You can create video ads - just like YouTube does - and broadcast between phases of your game with Azure Media Service. Another form of monetization.

Anyway, there is a world of possibilities that you can achieve using Azure. Hosting the hotsite of your game will not be a concern if you use Azure.

Absolutely! As an example we can mention the game Titan Fall that was all hosted in Azure. I think that's a good example.

As for supporting PHP, it supports well. Has a DevCenter - > link