Google Cloud Platform (Free Tier) WordPress Setup

Setup your own free tier web server using Google Clouds 'Always Free' tier resources. It's pretty quick to build a small and simple webserver to run things like WordPress using https://ideaspot.com.au/blog/cloudflare-hestia-setup/ The free tier documentation we referenced is here: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier Anything listed as 'free tier' does not get billed, even when your 90 day trial is over, so our vCPU, memory, drive and 1GB network traffic is free forever. If you're interested in setting up a mailbox on here, you can follow the steps in our previous HestiaCP video here: https://youtu.be/Hz58Zkke4VE For your SMTP service, my preferred free option is SendinBlue: https://ideaspot.com.au/sendinblue Another nice free option is using x10hosting, which we setup here: https://youtu.be/sKqjRz9zoog For those of you wanting to combine this method with Cloudflare, check our tutorial here for some more tips: https://youtu.be/BK7qyPa-VmI 0:00 Introduction 1:10 Google Cloud Server Setup 6:26 DNS Setup 7:54 Install Control Panel 13:12 Setup Webserver 16:51 Other Tips 17:46 Performance Testing & Conclusions At IdeaSpot, we support the free and open exchange of knowledge and information. Please support us by using these description links included here. Besides the great discounts you can get from these links, they help us grow too by providing us a small commission on referral. Thank you for supporting IdeaSpot so we can continue to provide you with free content each week!