Host Your Website on Google Cloud Platform Free Forever Tier

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Free Online Course: Host Your Website on Google Cloud Platform Free Forever Tier provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Host Your Website on Google Cloud Platform Free Forever Tier is taught by Peter & Jen Cook.

Overview
  • This class will walk you through all the steps to hosting from signup on Google Cloud Platform, to configuring a virtual machine using a Bitnami LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Stack, Uploading basic HTML, CSS & JavaScript files, Installing Wordpress, configuring CloudFlare, setting up multiple sites and sub-domains with virtual hosts (vhosts).

    Here are downloadable resources of common terminal commands we'll use throughout this class:  petervcook.com/blog/skillshare/

    Along the way you'll be introduced to several other free tools. If you are currently hosting your website on another hosting provider (such as Dreamhost, BlueHost, HostGator, MediaTemple, GoDaddy or others) you may be paying over $200 a year to host your site. 

Syllabus
    • 0 Class Introduction
    • 1 Overview of Google Cloud Platform
    • 2 Marketplace
    • 3 SSH Keys Explained
    • 4a Connecting via a SSH Tunnel on Mac
    • 4b Connecting via a SSH Tunnel on Windows
    • 5 Login via SFTP
    • 6 Server Housekeeping
    • 7 Installing WordPress or other Applications
    • 8 DNS & CloudFlare Setup
    • 9 CloudFlare Configuration
    • 10 Connecting to MySQL
    • 11 Hosting Multiple Sites