So as my first tutorial, I am going to start getting the Google Cloud Platform tutorials on the way. Here's a detailed guide to starting your Virtual Machine in the Compute Engine.
So why choose Google Cloud?
- Firsst off, its Google! What in this age doesn't run on Google? From your GPS, to your Android phone, to API you use in your websites and everything in between. So why not trust it with your Private Servers?
- Second off, the Google Cloud platform is reliable and amazingly detailed. From one console, you can host anything from your VM engine to networking to SQLs and debugging and everything else you can think of to run your websites or servers.
- They give you $300 to start off! No strings attached and you don't need to update billing until after it's all gone. It bills by the hour of your instances running. Even as, you get anywhere from 3-6 months of free VPS. Who wouldn't want that?
So have I convinced you yet? Well lets give it a go!
Sign-Up and Getting Started
So to start off you got to go to the website to get started.
https://cloud.google.com/
Alright once your here, click the Try it Free button and sign up with all your details. Once you finished that you should come up with this screen. Go to the menu, under Compute and go to Compute Engine
Might take a minute or two to get set up, but once there create a VM.
Now, for this tutorial and for ease, we shall be doing Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. Create a name for your VM, choose your cores and memory.
Click on the Change, Scroll to the bottom and click on Windows Server 2016. Choose SSD drive for better functionality, and 50 GB should be alright size.
MAKE SURE TO CLICK ALLOW HTTP ACCESS
This part is an extra but will help with storage, at the bottom, click on Disks. Than click on Create Disk.
Name your disk, choose SSD drive, click on Blank Disk and set for another 50 GB (your only allowed 100GB of SSD storage on Trial)
After that is done, Click on create and you should be led to a screen with your VM name and its external address. Now where it says connect and RDP, click the little arrow down next to it and click on Windows Password.
It will bring you to a screen with your username, just click on Set, it will come up with a password. Copy and save this away as you need it to connect to your VM. Now, click on RDP, it will bring up to download from 3rd party client. Click on it and run the RDP connection, Allow all connections and when it comes to the user screen use that password given. ((Sometime the copy will have spaces in it, make sure there is no space at the front or end of the password. You can be able to change this later.
Congrats! You have your VM running.
STATIC ADDRESS
Last thing to setting it up is getting a Static Address, or anytime you stop and restart your server you will lose the IP.
So go to your menu and go to Networking under Compute and go to External IP Address
Now when your there you will see your VM. Click on where it says Ephemeral and choose Static Address.
After it finishes, you have a Static Address.
Well there you go, that will get you set up with a VM running on Google Cloud.
Next is setting up your server to host a Domain Service and connecting to your external ip address. Stay tuned!!
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