Azure Websites vs octohost: What are the differences?

What is Azure Websites? Deploy and scale modern websites and web apps in seconds. Azure Websites is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables you to build, deploy and scale enterprise-grade web Apps in seconds. Focus on your application code, and let Azure take care of the infrastructure to scale and securely run it for you.

What is octohost? Simple web focused Dockerfile based PaaS server. octohost helps you host any web site by adding a Dockerfile to your app's source repository.

Azure Websites and octohost can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Azure Websites are:

• .NET, Java, PHP, Node.js, Python
• Built-in AutoScale and Load Balancing
• High Availability with Auto-Patching

On the other hand, octohost provides the following key features:

• Uses Dockerfiles rather than Procfiles
• More than 10 languages supported already, and many frameworks
• Support for Amazon, Digital Ocean, Rackspace

octohost is an open source tool with 444 GitHub stars and 32 GitHub forks. Here's a link to octohost's open source repository on GitHub.