Connect Cloud Service with Virtual Machine

Hi,
Recently migrated my Website to one of Virtual Machine ( Windows 2008 R2 ). Migrated all my MySQl, tomccat, memcache and code.. Now if I hit localhost on Virtual Machine I can see website up and running.
But When tried to connect it from outside failed to do so.
Can someone help me to setup cloud service pointing to this virtual machine. Already setup access points etc pointing to this VM

Have you created an endpoint for HTTP? Sounds like that is what is missing...
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-set-up-endpoints/

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>>that after rebooting VM, the first backup is made normally, but every next has described problem again.
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