Chapter 2. Trying it out: deploying WordPress on Google Cloud
This chapter covers
- What is WordPress?
- Laying out the pieces of a WordPress deployment
- Turning on a SQL database to store your data
- Turning on a VM to run WordPress
- Turning everything off
If you’ve ever explored hosting your own website or blog, chances are you’ve come across (or maybe even installed) WordPress. There’s not a lot of debate about WordPress’s popularity, with millions of people relying on it for their websites and blogs, but many public blogs are hosted by other companies, such as HostGator, BlueHost, or WordPress’s own hosted service, WordPress.com (not to be confused with the open source project WordPress.org).
To demonstrate the simplicity of Google Cloud, this ...
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