How to Host a FREE Website on Google Cloud Platform

[@briandenzer]

I was beginning to doubt I could find a straightforward, step-by-step guide - until I found this. Excellent work! Thank you.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@BRAZUCANYTV]

@@TonyTeachesTech google does not offer that 744 free hours anymore. :(

[@tharaka-nasgosports4613]

After 2 hours of hard working finally I made it. Thank you, sir

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Most welcome 😊

[@telephonerock]

Why does this video only have 6k of views? Keep it up man. Best tutorial for getting started with Google Cloud!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I appreciate that Matthew!

[@ivangauci807]

Of all the videos available, your one is the clearest and most useful. Thank you very much Tony and have a blessed life.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're very welcome, and thank you so much for taking the time to tell me :)

[@TheElevenBravo]

Tony, I must tell you......you are just an amazing human being! What a great disposition, sir, you possess! I was reading your story on your website and I must confess .....it's so touching! God bless you, brother, and thank you so much for this video as it has helped me a whole ton with my website project! May the Lord bless you and your family! Thank you! Thank you!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Appreciate the very kind words Darian. Thanks for checking out my story!

[@jrashish]

Hi Tony, have been following you for quite some time. Thank you for your great work. I have hosted my website using GCP free credits, but now want to downgrade to minimize my monthly billing - could you help me know 1. How to move VM to a new region 2. Is it possible to host it for free in 2023 because of I don't see the free hours as of now based on your suggested steps Thank you!

[@man005pak]

Excellent video. Although Google Cloud has many capabilities, I would choose Oracle Cloud for hosting a free WordPress website because of their provision of 200 GB storage, 1 GB memory, and an AMD processor under free tier.

[@JoJoy]

Saw a video which was warning of unannounced deletion of free account on Oracle Cloud. 😲

[@hephaestuslakan3774]

Thank you Tony, this tutorial has made my WP and website building more comprehensible.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it helped!

[@AttkBeast]

DUDE! Please tell people HOW to save and get OUT of Vim! I thought it was like any other editor. Nope! It took me another 45 mins to finish the conf file! I learned something, though. Thanks, Tony! Good video.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

LOL I'm sorry. I use vim all the time in my videos and forget to explain it. I think you figured it out by now, but for others, here's a basic vim tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3aXkp-gpLJ1m8k

[@pascomedia7456]

Seeing this comment has made my day! I have just spent an age looking for this too :D Otherwise a wonderful tutorial... and tbh I should have just watched the tutorial you suggested! Many thanks

[@kyuna4843]

😂😂😂

[@szelanyo]

...and the solution: Esc + type :wq + Enter

[@Virimen]

Thank you for making a well laid out tutorial.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're very welcome!

[@md.sinclair7112]

*****This deserves an award! Here is man has got it together knows and owns the process . What he teaches works ! This is the go to place for web hosting set up look no further . Thanks you did a great job Mike

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thank you so much Mike for the kind words :)

[@GetNerdyNow]

If you don't mind answering, what microphone are you using here?

[@jenmarkpelaez3616]

Great stuff you have here. I'm actually learning while following your walkthrough. Keep it up!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Awesome, thank you!

[@GalKricheli]

Thanks for the great tutorial - hopefully i will be able to handle with the installation of WP on the GCP.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome and good luck!

[@HiAlisainWonderland]

thank you Tony a lot . I have been struggling a bit, but after 3 times try over again, I have made it successfully. You are the best

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Great to hear!

[@andrewsharapko]

This is an INSANE helpful tutorial! I think @google should add this to their tutorial database. Thank you so much!

[@bama2619]

Thank you. You installed a vm with Ubuntu IOS and assigned a domain name to it. It is good to use word press. But how about just a landing page. Can I just use my simple html and css file without wordpress?

[@V3ctor003]

How do you save after editing .conf file? Thanks

[@farizg]

Many thanks! Is it possible to create more than one VM Instances which meet these free tier conditions and will be free of charge?

[@helmholtzwatson8884]

This is great, I'll have to try it out. Thank you!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yep, give it a try

[@helmholtzwatson8884]

@@TonyTeachesTech I just tried to sign up but unfortunately they don't accept prepaid credit cards and that's the only kind I use. So it goes.

[@Tyokok]

Thank you so much !!! You are amazing! I subscribed right away!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for subbing!

[@gentaflo]

Thanks Tony for the video. Are there any updates, seeing that his was created 3 years ago?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sure thing! Procedure and free tier limitations remain unchanged as far as I know. Of course, packages that you install will likely be newer versions

[@stheths9273]

Thanks for the great tutorial, it was very helpful!

[@Robert08010]

Could you run windows on one of these free virtual machines? And is it still free?

[@damilolaakande1254]

Hi Tony, thanks for making this video. I follow your steps and my website was live, for 2-3 months, now it’s not responding what do I do. Need help!!!

[@MyChannel92]

thanks for a great tutorial. how i can upload a database backup to this created database..i mean i am migrating my web or where i can find phpmyadmin panel really appreciate your quick answer

[@stepnitz]

It looks like the free tier changed to E2, is going to make a difference between N1 and E2?

[@pbznt]

You deserve a +1 subscribe and +1 like. Very good tutorial. I've been using GKE to deploy my stateful web app. Everything worked fine, except the .htaccess redirection. I was using Apache. I could not figure out how to solve this problem, for weeks! I tried your simpler solution to use google compute engine and everything works fine. Thanks.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for the sub Philippe! Enjoy

[@MpuksDigital]

Great video man, helps a lot. Is it possible to host the domains emails too? How would one do that?

[@AlegaTV]

Nice tutorial! So the first month for this particular set of requirements is free but what about the second one and so on? Will it be free until 300USD in credits are gone?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

If you choose the options that I choose in the video based on the Free Tier, you will never have to pay. It's free every month.

[@pedrodasilva5380]

is this still available from GCP ? I got to the the point that shows the "$5.08/month", but it doesn’t say anything about the first 744 hours being free.Not sure if I am doing something wrong or it is not available anymore.

[@gbhupenmail]

Excellent!!! Excellent!!!! Excellent !!!! Great job Bro!!!!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks a lot!

[@01shopping25]

hey bro thank you for this video, can i ask you what you did exactly in the 12:14? did you press something?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sorry for not making that clear! I saved the file by typing the following... Esc :wq Enter Here's a video that will help you with the Vim text editor kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3aXkp-gpLJ1m8k

[@01shopping25]

@@TonyTeachesTech thank you for your time and reply, i already find it in the comment and i did but still i have issue in the last part nginx error

[@drdkgupta]

Tony, thank you so much for creating this and many other easy to follow "techno-educational" videos! I am wondering if you can point me to a video or any other guidance on how can I host my spare MacBook Air (MBA) as a server for creating and running website (and other uses such as Postgres SQL server)? I understand that I need to get a static ip address to host the MBA server on the internetI, but am not able to find clear instructions anywhere.

[@dhlittlekelly6873]

Tony -- WTF! I have spent the last 3 hours with this craziness.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Are you having trouble?

[@abobonickname5696]

that is google cloud for you. azure just works

[@wmng13]

thank you for making this tutorial! very detailed and easy to follow!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@alexalainterieur]

excellent step by step tutorial i am not a geek but i made it to the end 🙏

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Very happy to hear that Alex

[@keblin86]

How popular would a blog need to get to reach the free limits? I know it takes years of work to get a blog going but I am just thinking to save a headache later I can just pay for hosting now lol. My fear is Google Hosting might be expensive if I brake the free tier limits. Does anyone have an answer that isn't too techy. Like how many visitors to my site would make me go over the free tier bandwidth?

[@kingof.london]

The best videos on KZbin

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks so much!

[@BigBangTheory302]

CLI is more difficult for setup configuration then GUI, Can I setup in visual interface

[@garotodoprograma]

I just am on chocked with yours videos. Very nice man!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Really appreciate it thanks 🙏

[@GDH1971]

Thank you Tony, worked like a dream 🙌

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Great!

[@VictorVoon_VicVoon]

HI thanks for the video. It is possible if i just wana host html files, css, and js only? thanks

[@ShopperPlug]

Bruh... got a gigantic oldbay spice mix as a souvenir lmao 🤣

[@psicoplanner3330]

Perfect! Thanks man! Works for me in the first time!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Great to hear!

[@diamondpicturesmw4903]

does this mean - it will only be free for one month - then the $5.08/ Will apply going forward?

[@AliAhmad-gy6xw]

Hello, i have a LMS website my students can register and buy any course they want, but currently i'm using AWS s3 storage with s3bubble player to stream the video content through my website pages with a high level of security that block any one to download or screen record any video from the website. now i'm building a new website like the old one but i want to ask if google cloud storage offer the same layer of security the any one cannot download or screen record any video or image and do they offer "pay as you go" pricing for video streaming?? Thank you in advanced

[@shyamkarthik.k]

Hey, At 2:35 - I Saw there is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS & Minimal versions, does minimal installation improve server initial load times/ server load/ related factors?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I don't think so.

[@TimMitra]

QQ is it possible to combine the hosting of multiple sites as in your other video? I have a bunch of friends and family sites on my VPS server so I looking for a cheaper way to park those WP sites.

[@afclmadagascar693]

Thank you for the great video! Does this give the ability to embed html code to build the entire website?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You can easily put your html code in the root of the web directory to display your website

[@markuspatzer8658]

Thank you Tony for this awesome video, after that for me it was relative easy to setup a google cloud vm. I use the e2 vm with 2pu+2gb ram, on Hesti apanel with apache-nginx. But my worldwide ttfb speed is slow between 500-900ms - I wonder this vm should be fast at 200ms what is wrong there? Have a nice day !

[@andrewsharapko]

Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@lifeincanada1015]

Great video, need to ask how to connect this new VM instance to Google Domains? Thanks in advance.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Assuming you already have bought your domain from Google Domains, you'd simply go into the DNS settings for this domain (in Google Domains) and add an A record with the value of the IP address of your VM. That's it!

[@EdgarasBendikas]

just found this video was trying set up but do not get 744 hours free usage message? I guess the time change and no more free website?

[@DespicableRage]

Great video mate thank you

[@TonyTeachesTech]

No problem 👍

[@inkishaftv5815]

This SSH command system is new to me. But learning is fun. We installed WordPress from SSH. But how do we back up our website? How to download it. And also tell us how to run the website by uploading any existing website data.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Good job so far! Actually I don't back up my WordPress sites (I know, I know not a good idea). Let me look into a making a video on this topic!

[@henrih137]

It would be nice to specify in arears of you videos when a command is crucial the get the website working vs steps that are just preference. I chose not to get a domain name yet and hence would have appreciated if you clarified what people with the default ip Adress should be doing vs ones with names

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@dtuk1412]

If i use ads how many days it's run ? Can I make 1 day ads only

[@christianadrales1031]

Hi Tony, first I'd like to thank you you for great content videos. I would like to learn how to create a personal blog about health niche and would appreciate to learn it from you. Thank you. Have a great day. Christian

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You are in the right place. Have a look around my channel :)

[@Egel]

Is still working? I can't see the message that says "Your first 744 hours......" and I have the same config as you have.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes, it is still working. Make sure you are using the exact same options

[@decadeofhustle5284]

Hi Tony, thank you for making this video. Just one thing I need help with, can you explain how to 'save that file', as mentioned at 12.14. Not sure how to save and get back to the command line to continue the process.

[@decadeofhustle5284]

I see it :wq :))))

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yep, :wp

[@ceritawawan]

press "esc" then type ":wq"

[@MrSilas2012]

im stuck here too. press esc on vim doesnt do anything. where do i type :wq? thanks!

[@thenourway]

@@ceritawawan you saved me!

[@syamillim3332]

Excellent tutorial. Tq

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@premnathd]

SSL installation within this video would make this a perfect video

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Coming up in the next few days, stay tuned!

[@bricoetmecaniqueparunefille]

hello, awesome thank you, is it limited to one instance? or can we create several same instances for free?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Just one instance

[@hunterxnixon]

Thanks for the video! Everything worked perfectly.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Great to hear!

[@tony2paul]

What's the difference between creating an instance and install WP in SSH to install WP directly in the marketplace with Bitnami or Google solutions?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

The only difference is convenience. Doing it manually, you might get a more up-to-date version, but from the marketplace you can always upgrade the packages and eventually get to the same place.

[@Xpressd]

the video is great but your article is amazing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✅

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I appreciate that!

[@andrewpace3974]

Thanks so much! You earned a new subscriber.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Awesome, thank you Andrew :)

[@bunglende3148]

amazing... Thanks A lot Tony It's Work. 👏👏

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Great!!

[@hemanthsrivathsav]

So this works for a month right

[@hackersnetwork8788]

i want to ask if the 3 month has been over so will google cloud will charge us the money or it will use from 300 credit because we are using as low as possible

[@TonyTeachesTech]

This is forever free as long as you stay within the bandwidth limits

[@vino9587]

hello sir, is it still always free even after i upgrade my account regarding trial end ?

[@AMNOWTECH]

With this can I get more traffic and monitize the blog

[@rondamari9915]

You lost me at the VIM stage where at 12:15 you said to save the file. What did you do to save it and get back to the previous screen?

[@snikeradict19]

Same thing. And that's where I receive a lot of error messages.

[@Dodo17sky]

If you don't have a domain name use the IP instead. Also remove default link file from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled if you want to get wordpress home page

[@elviskwameofori4536]

hope if you want to change host in future from google it wont be a problem?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You can use a plugin like Duplicator to migrate your site to another host in the future

[@kaulbhaskar]

Please make a similar video on website with next.js

[@Businessfinance1349]

I don't know if I can do that, any beginner manage to get it setup?

[@lanecazier9011]

I get the following error when I test using nginx -t : "the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges" Not sure what to do or why? Also when I head to the IP it still refuses to connect, this video seems good just can't get it working for me

[@pablue]

Fantástico meu amigo. Muito grato por postar este vídeo. 16 minutos que valem muito.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thank you very much Pablo

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great Video, thanks Tony. I assume we can host multiple WP sites .. right?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yea definitely... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmi6ZZyPoKuUhbc

[@CanadianMang]

How do I acquire the knowledge that you have? I didn't really understand anything you were doing. I really want to get into software development and web design, I'm learning C# right now but I feel I still have a lot of gaps. I don't really want to go to university at this stage in life.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Good question. I learned some of it from university, but a lot more just from being curious and poking around the internet. Keep watching videos like this. You'll get there with time

[@dev_danny]

Helped alot, thanks !

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You’re welcome!

[@susiebaka3388]

BTW F1-Micro is no longer free. They changed it to e2-micro. otherwise its the same. They say "30GB disk" is free, but you are using 30GB disk + 10GB boot disk. do you know if disk has to be 20gb if boot disk is 10gb?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for letting us know

[@mihalyfreeman5928]

Why would you need to do all the SSH routines. Google cloud already deploys WP and the entire OS. Am i missing something here?

[@MarkAnthonyCabilo]

Great video! I'm a newbie and I was able to setup my vm in gcp successfully and accessing the website via the external IP also works. My problem is my Google domain never points to this IP. I tried using custom name servers based on the gcp-vm instance. But after three days of waiting for the propagation delay, the website still does not get accessed via the domain names. Help?

[@kondzio2003]

Great tutorial

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks!

[@macksoneh]

5:34 After 6 months of successfully running a WP site on the GCP, I tried to login via console. Now it asks me login name and password. Where do I find them?

[@btech1742]

Hy Tony, Do we need to add a credit card / debit card to get started with cloud compute engine steps you show? Usually all Cloud platforms have this restriction, your video doesn't have any mention of this restriction

[@techycompute3636]

Yes you need credit card. Also, prepaid credit card are prohibited. Except if you have paypal With prepaid card.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes you'll need a payment card kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpTNlnp6mrh4m9k

[@simailing1790]

@@TonyTeachesTech I forgot to check the options for "Allow HTTP traffic" and "Allow HTTPS traffic" under firewall, should I reset the VM instances that I have created?

[@dailymeow3283]

Hey thank you, i wish i can do like you, for my abilities that's abit complicated and would take much time, Any web hosting you recommend please, secure & fast loading website

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I personally use WPX for most of my websites now

[@dailymeow3283]

@@TonyTeachesTech thank you, happy new year

[@junior2441]

Thanks for this! It Works!!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@shafti1960]

عالی استاد

[@yungslitz8391]

If i was in the UK could i set up a vm in the US to host a website targeted for uk? Or would it increase the latency

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You could definitely do this. The latency would exist, but would not be noticable from the perspective of your users

[@forexclass]

what about credit card do they ask for it

[@ZesCompanyGames]

Hi, this is a really dumb question but, how do you actually save de .conf file? I hit Crtl + S and Crtl + G but nothing happens. :(

[@TonyTeachesTech]

In vim, you have to hit Esc then type :wq to save a file

[@MrSilas2012]

@@TonyTeachesTech when i do that it says no file name

[@hararekid]

Great video, thanks Tony!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You bet Clyde

[@harshitbatra2577]

Can we create multiple of such VM instances and still it will be FREE?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

No, just 1 instance

[@iamakinola]

Instead of me doing all this for WordPress, can i just install CWP or virtualmin on the server instead, while i can install WordPress through the webserver?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yeah definitely

[@iamakinola]

@@TonyTeachesTech ok... Is the hosting for just 1 year or as long as storage kept within?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@iamakinola free forever as long as you stay within the limitations

[@necromancer7712]

You are a ROCKSTAR! THANK YOU!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@necromancer7712]

@@TonyTeachesTech I have encountered a small problem and am not sure whether this is due to Wordpress or Google Cloud. I can not create any new post or page. I get the message saying "you are offline" when I click Publish in Wordpress. Any ideas?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@necromancer7712 Hmm, I have not seen this one yet. Can you tell if the error message is coming from WordPress or the Nginx server?

[@necromancer7712]

@@TonyTeachesTech actually I was able to find out after a bit of googling. It seems Wordpress settings were HTTP which needed to be changes to HTTPS. That fixed the issue

[@tenwebsolutions]

Is there a big improvement compared to Shared Hosting Tony?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Potentially yes since you have "dedicated" resources that you're not sharing with other sites

[@tenwebsolutions]

@@TonyTeachesTech thanks! Would this free cloud package be suitable to a small e-commerce site?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@tenwebsolutions Yes I believe so