wordpress on free google compute

wordpress on free google compute.md

Wordpress (almost) Free on Google Compute

Most of this came from an article that I can't seem to find anymore

1. create a google cloud account / turn on compute
2. create a free tier compute instance
3. purchase a domain
4. set up a static ip (costs ~ $3.60/month)
5. set up dns
6. ssh into compute instance
7. install docker in rootless mode
   1. sudo apt-get install -y dbus-user-session # don't remember if this is needed
   2. cat <<EOF | sudo sh -x
apt-get -y install uidmap
EOF
   3. curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/rootless | sh
8. allow rootless docker user to bind low port numbers: sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=ep $(which rootlesskit)
9. install git if not already installed
10. set up swapfile so that wordpress has more memory to work with
    1. sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
    2. sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
    3. sudo mkswap /swapfile
    4. sudo swapon /swapfile
    5. sudo vi /etc/fstab
    6. add to the end of the file /swapfile none swap sw 0 0
11. set up crontab to restart server every day to deal with memory leaks and large swapfiles slowing down the site
    1. sudo crontab -e
    2. 0 0 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r
12. git clone https://github.com/Chovin/nginx-proxy-snippet.git
13. cd into it and set up .env
14. docker compose up -d
15. cd ..
16. git clone https://github.com/Chovin/wordpress-docker-compose.git
17. cd into it and set up .env
18. docker compose up -d