As a part of my #migrating to
Why now? Because I planned to switch
My server hasn’t been stable for the last week or so. Sometimes I just can’t connect to my blog for no reason
Like right now, I write The Art Of Quote … my server down
But let’s talk about that later when I finally switched
Now, I want to talk more about why I use GCP to host my WordPress blog
After before I talked about Why I Switched To WordPress
Actually, GCP wasn’t my first option. It was Niagahoster
GCP wasn’t even my second option, it was Ms. Azure
GCP was my third option
I have some experience with GCP before, mostly from Project Letisha’s Firebase Backend
But that wasn’t a good experience. Because I already got used to Ms. Azure’s dashboard, GCP dashboard just looks like a mess for my untrained eyes
But, after knowing Go-Jek and Ruangguru use GCP, I think I would give GCP a second chance
I mean, Go-Jek and Ruangguru must have some kind of reason to use GCP right?
I mean if they think AWS or Ms. Azure
Update
Shit, I forget to continue writing this post… this post just sit there on my draft for 5 days
And now, this post already irrelevant because I switched server provider, again. I am using DigitalOcean right now
Why I switch? I will talk about that in another post
But let’s get back to the point, why did I choose to use GCP?
Well, it was mostly experimental
As I said before, knowing Ruangguru and Go-jek use GCP really influenced me
But…
Google is one of the top 3 companies (IMO, other than Microsoft and Apple), and their services depend heavily on internet
Like, Google Search for example, their main product. I bet there’s a lot of people use Google as their main homepage, or at least search engine
That says a lot, they obviously have a really good infrastructure to support Google Search with that millions of search request every… minute I guess
The experience they have building that infrastructure, could be used to make GCP better
Similar to how AWS come to be
Next reason is, well… I’m broke
Google is post-paid, so we use first than I paid at the end of the month
I have literally no money earlier this month, but I really wanted to switch to WordPress
So my rationale was, well… maybe at the end of this month, I will have enough money to pay for it
Yeah that’s it
But, lemme re-iterate this again… I already switched server provider again
As I said, it was an experiment, and I wasn’t satisfied with the result
The main reason I switch are, the cost of running GCP Compute Engine, and the GCP’s Dashboard
I still can’t use the dashboard very well…
Maybe I just way too noob to use GCP~
This is a hidden footnote
Also, don’t forget to read why I choose to switch again to DigitalOcean
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