Hello everyone, this is joe from onepagezen.com
and today in this tutorial
we're going to go over how to set up a WordPress website
using the Google Cloud Platform for hosting
Now this is an especially useful tutorial for you
if you have an existing WordPress website that you want to move over
to the Google Cloud Platform for hosting
OR..
if you are starting a new WordPress website and are looking for a hosting provider
Now the first step in this tutorial is to head over to the google cloud platform
[typing] that's "cloud.google.com"
Click on the console tab in the upper right-hand corner
[clicks]
Alright - now before you can begin with this tutorial
you do need to have a Google Cloud Platform account
setting up an account is relatively straightforward
however I'm not going to go over those steps in this tutorial
so once you have successfully created an account
head over to your dashboard on Google Cloud Platform
and we're going to go here in the upper left-hand corner
we're going to go to the "create a project" tab
now for project name you can put in whatever you want
I'm going to put in "test-1"
now notice how Google will come up with a unique project ID for you
click create [clicks]
I am going to forgo that simply because I have already
created a project for this example
so once you've created your project
make sure it's selected here
and we're going to go to "Cloud Launcher" in order to deploy WordPress
[clicks on "Cloud Launcher" link]
[scrolls down]
now I will scroll down a bit and here you'll notice
the Cloud/CMS solutions
the first three here are WordPress
I'm going to go with WordPress by Bitnami simply because it's the most straightforward to use
- in my opinion -
I'm going to click that
then I'm going to click "Launch on Compute Engine"
[clicks]
alright - now for deployment name
you can name it whatever you want
in this tutorial I am going to name it "test-1"
for "zone" - you can select whichever zone you prefer
for "Machine Type" I am going to select the "Micro 0.6GB"
simply because it is the cheapest option
for disk type I am going to select the "Solid State Drive"
simply because they are - on average
about 5-10x faster than the "Standard Persistent Disk"
and for "Disk Size" in GB
I am going to go with the default of 10GB
simply because that it the lowest disk size allowed
alright - now I am going to scroll down and click "Deploy"
[clicks "Deploy"]
now this process does take a couple of minutes...
for the project do deploy
so hold on and be patient...
[skip to 5:00 if you don't want to wait]
Alright - now that our WordPress has been deployed
we're going to take note of our "admin user name"
which is "user"
and our "admin password"
which is temporary - and you're going to want to change it
after your first login
so I'm going to "copy" that
[select text + ctrl c]
and im going to click "Login to the Admin Panel"
[clicks]
[page loading]
alright - for "username" enter "user"
for "password", we're going to "paste"
[click + ctrl v]
and I'm going to login
and there you go - you have just installed WordPress on the Google Cloud Platform
now in the next tutorial I am going to go over
how to point your domain to your Google Cloud Platform account
and I will also show you how to move over and existing WordPress Website
to your Google Cloud Platform WordPress installation
If you have any questions - feel free to comment in the box below
OR...
feel free to send me an email
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