Google Cloud Platform (Free Tier) WordPress Setup

[@hyperistica]

I especially liked the "Google Cloud Server Setup" section. Specifically, these tips: 1. enable receiving HTTP(S) traffic 2. change the disk to be standard 30GB 3. too much network egress can still cost money

[@ssportslivetvstreaming]

they charge you even if its in free tier?

[@harshamesta]

​@@ssportslivetvstreamingI want an answer for this question. Did they change money if we select other regions.

[@peoyli]

@@ssportslivetvstreaming The egress free-limit is only 1GB (yup, GB, not TB), so even if you think your VM is sitting there idle, all the attacks from the outside, especially when you have opened up HTTP/HTTPS and have installed Wordpress or other applications sending out data (when requested), that 1GB will be used up in a short time. For my re-visit to Google Cloud, I just put a simple "no" as output (so two bytes + headers wasted of egress) for the custom error pages for Apache (specifically 403 and 404 which will be hit many times)

[@as-1982]

@@ssportslivetvstreaming It's free up to a certain level. Just read their documentation.

[@GamingAccount-c8z]

Never ever ignore your free trial account without closing billing, else your card will be debited automatically after 90 days.. I did that mistake and hope no one else does the same.

[@voiciray]

Wonderful tutorial. I'm a mobile developer by trade who's setting up his own website and Wordpress is all very new to me.

[@aimaruti]

Nothing like this tutorial in 2024. I am your new subscriber.

[@markkithinji2666]

This is the 7th time and counting I've referred back to this video. Love you my friend

[@marykirby7406]

I have revisited this tutorial numerous times. Best one on this topic. Thank you 🙏

[@andreas_tech]

Hi, I want to thank you for showing the average user, how easy it is to create cost free servers & websites on google, oracle etc. I used to use aws free tier for one project, now I have three different projects on 3 diff. cloud providers and I couldn't afford that financially without free tier : ) Thanks

[@RodelGumia]

Appreciate you very much. Clear and concise tutorial. Not bragging what u know to confuse the viewers. Thanks a lot. New subscriber here. God bless you always bro.

[@benjaminsart9195]

haven't tried this tutorial yet but sounds like what i been looking for setting up and testing my wordpress website and i can always expand as i grow.

[@DonkGeek]

This is the best video that explains how to get a cheap / free GCP instance. Thanks!

[@andrisstanga5938]

Great video. Would really appreciate a remake of it with the latest interface on the GCP site, which has changed a little since you made this. I'm a bit confused over making the firewall rules, so have not been able to login to Hestia after installing it. As I said, some things seem to have changed since this video. Even if you added a 'quickie' just to point out the new things to look out for. Also, using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS? differences/dangers? Oh - and found out the hard way not to upgrade version according to the Ubuntu prompts - it breaks the Google addons to the package. Need to use Google's own updater.

[@ggduy6929]

Thank You. 1st Trial. Was pretty easy to follow through!

[@waqasarshadar]

Great work man. I just finished all setup. going step by step. btw I am a first-time GCP user and everything works like a charm. now I can add more websites. Thanks a lot

[@IdeaSpot]

Nice work!

[@jeric.moreno]

Omg! There is no such free! Did you know the thing -- egress? 😂😂

[@Virtualbox_Tutorials]

I JUST FOUND YOUR GPC Tutorial... Thankyou

[@behappyaswell8822]

can you do a tutorial on how to connect a Wordpress site to Google Cloud CDN

[@tsykin]

Thank you so much for this video! I managed to setup free VPS server with 0 experience 👍

[@helpinfo6556]

Hello, After this process, Could you please show me how to add a new domain in the same instance?? I am waiting for your response.

[@vnikyt]

Did you ever figure this out? Trying to do the same thing

[@ثروةالتكنولوجيا]

‎what do you advise us as a reliable service? oracle or google? ‎

[@jonaspudas9988]

Forgot about this guide. Haven't used Google Cloud Compute Engine since I found out about Oracle - Thank you so much for both introductions! Not going to let this one go unused either.

[@BatesonBen]

There's still value to this guide for when Google finally come to the party, but I agree, 4 CPUs, 24GB RAM and 200GB storage from Oracle is pretty compelling.....

[@kiraitachi]

@@BatesonBen Yes, until you find they suspend or terminate free tier accounts randomly for no whatever reason. Been running mine for 1 year and a half and boom, my website and Nagios got axed. Going back to google. Oracle free tier is mostly a trap to get you in and make you pay.

[@champagnejose]

@@kiraitachi that's sad man

[@your-mom-irl]

@@kiraitachi all free cloud services are, oracle are just nasty about it

[@real.swidan]

you are a greatest man in the youtube

[@PlanetMynd]

This tutorial is great. It totally worked. Thank you!

[@mdsami870]

is static ip free?

[@fashionpolicezambia7775]

Is it okay leaving the static Ip to ephemeral and not to static to prevent the IP from changing after a VM Reboot?

[@ArmandoReixagrfkz]

I believe it should be set to static

[@KINGBLAKEI]

Almost made it. Ran into a problem with the SSL Certificate. Says my domain doesn't exist. Not sure how to fix it. Any tips?

[@ComputerTech312]

Good video mate. 👍 PS: had account issues with changing name, so just reposting review. 😛

[@indupriya8165]

This is helpful. But despite setting up the DNS Zone, the domain is redirecting to ip. What could be the possible reason. I installed wordpress in GCP VM instance

[@HerbertHenderson-l4e]

Brilliant tutorial. I didnt even know what Hestia CP is, that really gives me a lot more capabilities. But would I be right in assuming, you could do all this with a Docker Compose file, is that true.

[@glowmarketer219]

Amazing man! you are time killer and live saver.... I don't know how to thank you. I respect your time and knowledge you have given in this video :):):):):)

[@ThomasDunnDesign]

I needed to put the force option after the shell script rather than at the end of the command line to resolve the admin already exist error.

[@blackiek7]

Hi Alex, can we connect cloudflare cdn to gcp? Will it help to prevent going over the egress limit?

[@jeric.moreno]

Yes! The KZbin doesn't know egress! And his video is misleading There is no such free if Egress exist

[@codedusting]

Question: if the bandwidth is around 1TB, then will this method work? The front-end will be NextJS so during build time, it would hit the WordPress.

[@realswidan]

you are really the saver - I respect you so much

[@TheDiabeticWay]

Thank you for your life saving video help! 🙂

[@inwardeye]

Hi Alex thanks for making this video. i just have a problem though....i can't seem to be allowed to start the google free tier and i don't know why i keep getting CBAT-11 error. Any additional help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[@iVanRemovals]

That was great thank you

[@motylevy22]

Hi I have a question, why do I need to install githubusercontent and hestiacp? What will happen if I don't install them?

[@superheroesincolor]

Awesome video, got my basic server upp and runing, something I need help with tho, how do I add a subdomain? I have tried but cant seem to make it work, Im using namecheap and hestiapanel

[@nouasabdelatif6029]

If you wants to setup email as he mentioned with sendinblue you follow the video he mentioned, you would be able to send emails however you can't receive emails you have to open a port. As he added firewall rule 8083. You add one with 80,443,143,993,110,995,25,465,587 Personally I'm not an expert on this, i googled allot of stuff and saw that in the oracle video he didn't just add 8083 he added all of that

[@digitalindiainsight4014]

Really Nice tutorial. I was thinking if we could setup cloud flare and SWAP to increase the RAM size. My other website get around 3k daily visit and planning to move my site to free tier.

[@jihyejeong4259]

I just used cloudways for webhosting and plan to move to GCF. in that case, what do I have to add hcp field?

[@zerroug]

Great tutorial as usual, Can you please do a tutorial about installing Ghost blog on oracle always free tier (the AMD compute if you can )

[@IdeaSpot]

Good idea, been thinking about Ghost for a while too

[@zerroug]

@@IdeaSpot keep up the good work mate

[@ramzjaner5180]

So you’re not using external IP pr private one😊

[@henrysimpson5995]

Amazing thank you so much worked perfectly!

[@gabrielkasonde367]

GCP having free tier service, for how long will the free tier run before it expires and I start getting charged ?

[@gabrielkasonde367]

@ComputerTech thank you

[@PatrickMcCoyJr]

How does one increase the memory limit? There doesn’t seem to be a good answer online. I know for sure it doesn’t work the way shared hosting works?

[@apivovarov2]

whst is free incoming/ outcoming traffic on free tier server machine ?

[@johnnny9]

i follow what you did exactly but I get a 18 cent charge a month for compute engine is there anywhere I ca n check how come I m getting charged as its just a passive site with no users

[@melspecies664]

how about nameservers i didnt see anything concerning namesavers ?

[@faouzimedd]

Thanks for every video tutorial

[@mdsolokhassan5854]

Nice video, Thank you

[@IdeaSpot]

Thank you too 👍

[@markkithinji2666]

This was soooo helpful. that's a sub for me✌🏽

[@moradgeig-vz6ib]

Thank you for the review

[@gabrielkasonde367]

Nice tutorial, How many VM instances does the free tier allow you to create ?

[@michaeljarcher]

one

[@propolski8296]

Gcloud is pain in the ass. Attitude of this firm is very bad. Telemetry in golang is another "good" thing.

[@lukan1u]

Works perfectly. Thanks a a lot 😊 😊

[@hoghogh3451]

i waiting for the nexts

[@hrewlhfe3782]

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[@miltonjosechavezacevedo7174]

Awesome!

[@HullioGQ]

Nobody should be using port 25 anymore, anyway! But you should be able to open 993, 995, 587, 465 (all for secure email). Question: Since Hestia is running under TCP, how secure is it?

[@Av-uv6xu]

What if I want to do all as here but for my subdomain not for the main domain? Any advice?

[@ravi-gadhiya]

Really Appreciate it

[@IdeaSpot]

thanks Ravi

[@dannycastano4282]

Hi, someone please help me. I installed wordpress with Hestia Cpanel and all went ok until I tried to import a starter template with blocksy them autoscript. blocksy troubleshooting steps for this issue is to increase max input time and time limit in my server php settings but I have tried all google steps to increase these to values which are defaulting to 60 seconds. I found many php.ini files in my vm Ubuntu install including the hestia directorty and modified all to have these values increased to 300 and even after modifying all php.ini files the site info in wp still showing 60 for both. this is very frustrating. I hope someone understands and knows how to fix this, Hestia was an alleluia until this.

[@timothynwanwene4378]

do you have AWS and Cloudpanel tutorial? I can't find one on your channel.

[@youruleyourlife]

nice! Can you make a video HOW TO build a very simple Landing Page and How we can save the collected emails in All above and past mentioned Free Web Hosting Providers (example Google Sheets or google Forms can collect emails) ?

[@IdeaSpot]

good idea 👍

[@_Trakman]

yeah, a landing page with some sorta of newsletter sign up/mailing list would be cool

[@pistachiotm3700]

while installing control panel (adding email & pass) an error occurs - user admin already exists, how do we go ahead?

[@evgenigeorgiev8001]

The same with me...

[@salmanozkara947]

use the groupdel admin code on console

[@bshop_5137]

Hi, thank you for the video. So am I limited to only 1 free instance or is there a limit in one project? or do I have to create a new project for the 2nd free tier instance?

[@UNITYMusics]

Your Free Tier e2-micro instance limit is by time, not by instance. Each month, eligible use of all of your e2-micro instance is free until you have used a number of hours equal to the total hours in the current month

[@moadel9403]

Is it possible to install a cyberpanel on it?

[@IdeaSpot]

yes Its 1GB ram and its was an intel cpu when I check so should be fine 👍

[@amrabdelmonen8569]

is it a 90 days trial as mentioned in the top header or a lifetime free tier ? after the 90 days end I will be charged per month or per use like if the website has little traffic how much I will be charged for hosting?

[@jeric.moreno]

Technically the compute free tier service of gcp can be free lifetime (as of this comment) But egress is not free! Thats the hidden cost of this free thing!

[@songyi6736]

After typing finish code in ssh, how long time will wait, I wait almost 30 min, is that normal?

[@Trnam-sc8kd]

please make tutorial about google ads tips

[@HassaanMehmood-n6f]

Hey does this come with ssl

[@DNTgrowth]

this Free tier accept Docker Container apps? :)

[@denuwanlahiru6310]

thank you alex

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@realswidan]

I hope you make a video for Amazon AWS Free tier

[@IdeaSpot]

yes thats a good idea, last time I checked it didn't have any free tier CPU, so we would need to use a static site rather than WP as usual, but it could be an interesting project

[@realswidan]

@@IdeaSpot Great

[@strigoimaster4100]

Unable to complete signup process. Google won't accept my card. I tried 4 cards but all gave the same error [OR-CBAT-15]. Giving up

[@binodev1820]

Hi ! Did you find a solution for this?

[@lukogs]

I have the same question that I ask on every other video (same type except you used cpanel like thing?) I have 2 datacenter in my region. Is this method only applicable for USA (since default things are US-America, & back those days most servers were from the west). Can I select my region's data center and still get free thing?.

[@IdeaSpot]

correct, only the USA regions mentioned @1:53 are 'always free' so be sure to select the correct US server to take advantage of free tier.

[@lukogs]

Thank you for the response. If I, from the east, made a website, will the site speed be negligible or there will be seeable latency?

[@IdeaSpot]

A little latency but not too bad, could try combining with cloudflare caching to get some local caching which would help too

[@thedesigner4246]

thank you brother

[@Hugo-xj2mj]

Thank you

[@David-pw5gd]

I got the "-bash: wget: command not found" error. What do you think could be wrong pls? Thanks.

[@David-pw5gd]

FIXED: For some unknown reason, the "wget" package is installed but not working so I had to reinstall it using the command "sudo apt-get install wget" (without the quotes). Then proceeded to installing hestia and everything is working fine. Hope it'll help someone.

[@lytantaiSG]

Im use F1 micro over 3 year ago, google still charge about 5$ every month, it is not free ?

[@deanlangford9084]

F1 micro is no longer on the free tier. It was a couple of years ago but that changed.

[@ujmix]

Can integration of Cloudflare possible in this ?

[@IdeaSpot]

yes its possible, check the method I used in hestia+cloudflare here, the cloudflare steps with the ports and SSL should be the same kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHyaoqyGlpKJo6s

[@ujmix]

@@IdeaSpot Tnx Alot Sir

[@hgurto9849]

Good vibe

[@helpinfo6556]

How to check phpmyadmin password from SSH???

[@paceyfx]

How can I install emulator on aws free tier??

[@apadia8447]

how long its free?

[@vishal_joshi24]

Hey! Thanks for making such important videos! I have an issue from my side after following the exact same steps. I created a VM on google cloud and hestia. I also configured my domain and authenticated on sendinblue as well. The issue is that I am able to receive emails and just not able to send any email. I can "technically" send email but I never arrives to the receiver. I ask for help with my issue! Thanks

[@vishal_joshi24]

Edit 1: ok i never thought it could be this easy. After successfully registering my domain on sensinblue, i went to zoho mail (free tier) and enter the details for my domain. Everything working super smooth and the best part, my emails do not land in promotional folder or spam folder which itself was a deal breaker for me! Cannot be more satisfied. Thanks again!

[@dannycastano4282]

​@@vishal_joshi24 can you share s link of a tutorial on how to use this mailing service? I would appreciate it.

[@vishal_joshi24]

@@dannycastano4282 Well I cannot because the free account only has like 1 domain/account registration limit. Feel free to write if you got like some specific questions!

[@youneskhouloud2504]

if anyone has a clue about how to create an account there refusing to accept my cards so please share a method

[@cvbd5709]

I sign up in hostinger

[@selenefroehlich9138]

I get this after clicking enable Compute Engine "Compute Engine API requires a project with a billing account." I thought this was free

[@altidude]

I also ran into this with the free Google Maps API -- despite the docs **specifically stating** that no billing account was required, a billing account was required. I'm guessing they don't really have the ability to completely fence off the free services from the things you could escalate to and rack up charges.

[@dannycastano4282]

Any free service in the net out there requires that you provide a credit card info for the free trial period. I believe that's the reason why they require you to do this first. for the case of GCP, it makes sense because your website csn start small with very low traffic but if you are successful your traffic will hopefully increase to a point where you will start making money out of visitors, at that point you will be able to pay for the extra charges resulting from the increased traffic. But google offers that free tier for startups because we all know startups don't make money until they are an acclaim business so at least it gives you that courtesy of no charge until successful which can take days, months or even years if your product is just not what people are into 🤷‍♂️

[@matthewgaming831]

​@@dannycastano4282 You can use a debit card.

[@victorpalmer869]

I'm getting can't connect to port 22 after install

[@victorpalmer869]

Working now

[@nouasabdelatif6029]

Is this for the email setup?

[@appravo]

ok

[@IdeaSpot]

👍

[@marcin6386]

so 1TB egres would be like... 80$ ? oh my...

[@hamzaodt3515]

So how much hosting a full working wordpress website could cost per year ?

[@IdeaSpot]

I see a few reports of $5-10 for a year for some blogs

[@hamzaodt3515]

@@IdeaSpot that's good

[@peoyli]

Google cloud is messy as hell... take a look at the Free Tier provided by Oracle instead.. Oracle Free Tier includes 200GB disk space, two e2 VMs, four Ampere A1 cores with 24GB RAM (using up to four VMs)... But I see you have covered it in an old video, so I really does not understand why you promote Google-crap at this time (fully understandable if this video was older than the one covering Oracle Free Tier)

[@intel24]

google can maake better exp than oracle .D

[@jaxkarson]

This video did not work, don’t waste your time

[@deanlangford9084]

I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, but I cant connect to the HCP panel via my browser. Do I need to crate a cname entry for hcp.my.domain?

[@deanlangford9084]

Ok, so that's what it was. i had to create a cname record for hcp.my.domain. Thanks.