Host A Full-Featured Blog With Less Than 0.99 Usd Per Month

Complete and detailed walkthrough of each step on hosting a Ghost blog from scratch

What you'll learn
Host a full-featured blog for almost FREE in Google Cloud Platform!
How to buy and setup own domain to have your own identity!
Setup a secured blog with SSL Certificates and daily backup!
Use docker to decouple the blog architecture for easy update and changes in the future.
Requirements
Basic docker and bash knowledge. Detailed steps will be provided in both video or self-written articles by author, so no worries if you are a totally beginner! Just sit back and enjoy the videos!
(Optional) Sign up for 90-day $300 Google Cloud Platform Free Trial
Description
You are going to learn about how we can host a full-featured blog in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for less than 0.99 USD per month (subject to site traffic of course!), with Ghost as our choice of open source platform. We will start with high level architecture of our complete setup, then dive straight into demos on buying your first own domain, setting up static IP address, obtaining secure certificates and many more! I am confident that you will come out of the course with a fully functional blog that you could use to showcase your content to your family, friends, colleagues and people all around the world!There are the list of tech stacks that we will be covering Blogging PlatformGhostHardwareGoogle Compute EngineOrchestrationDockerDatabaseMySQLWeb ServiceNginxSSL CertificateCertbotI will be using a dummy domain to walkthrough each step to integrate all the tools mentioned above so that you can replicate the same on your side! Detailed code and steps will also be shared in the video as well as self-written articles, so just sit back, relax and enjoy all the demos! Let's get onboard on the blogging journey now! I am so excited on what your blog can bring to the world!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 High Level Architecture & Free Tier Usage Limits

Lecture 3 Buy Your Domain

Lecture 4 Create a Disk

Lecture 5 Create a VM with Static IP Address

Lecture 6 Resources & Tips

Lecture 7 Mount the Disk

Lecture 8 Setup SSL Certificate

Lecture 9 Install Docker

Lecture 10 Update Your Domain

Lecture 11 Setup Docker Compose

Lecture 12 Start Your Blog

Lecture 13 Setup Your Blog

Lecture 14 Summary

New content creator who wants to start blogging with as little cost as possible,Existing blogger interested in Ghost as an alternative blogging platform,Anyone who prefer a lightweight but full-featured blog