IIS Media Service using BLOB Storage

since BLOB storage does not yet support smooth streaming, and since SMarx's application has some limitations and may possibly break with future streaming protocol changes, I would like to host IIS Media Services in a Virtual Machine role and pull the video bits from blob storage. My idea as of this second revolves around having the VM instance contain a web site whose contents is output from Expression 4. The contents of the website directory is provided (kept in sync) with new blob entries/deletes using something like CloudBerry. 开发者_如何学运维Is this a complete and utter kludge?

One thought that comes to mind is - why VM Role? I recently wrote a blog post about installing Windows Features into a worker role - the same ideas would apply to installing media services into a web role + IIS. Otherwise, I see no reason why this would not work. Obviously the admonition to always run at least 2 instances applies...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/golive/archive/2011/08/15/installing-windows-features-in-a-windows-azure-role-instance.aspx