Installing and Enabling Telnet Server on Ubuntu Linux
By default, Telnet server is disabled for security purposes in favor of SSH. However, you can enable Telnet for testing purposes or for legacy scripts.
Install WordPress on Microsoft Azure PaaS
I have been hosting this blog on WP Engine for a couple of years and my experience has been fantastic. A while back, I explored moving my blog to Azure, but in order to have the same high-availability that WP Engine offered, I would be required to construct a load-balanced WordPress IaaS implementation - installing, configuring and managing the WordPress app environment and the MySQL database (VMs, load balancers, firewalls, etc.). Additionally, I could have chosen to use ClearDB as the MySQL provider. But, all in all, creating a linux-based high-availability environment would be considerably expensive.
Just recently, Microsoft released two new features in Azure - Azure Service Plan on Linux and Azure Database for MySQL Server. These two components allow me to run a full PaaS implementation of WordPress. Continue to read to learn how to install WordPress on a Microsoft Azure PaaS environment.