We dev using google cloud?

[Nerou Daantos]

I'm just new to the cloud, I've searched for things like how i can deploy a site to google cloud but i only see its for static ones.

what i wanna ask is that, would it be possible to host my entire site in google cloud? like the database and etc? its actually a school portal with inquiry system. 

i do have a domain from Name Cheap and a D N S too.

-Thanks

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hey Nerou,

You can definitely do more than host a static site with Google Cloud Platform. I'd advice you to take a closer look and explore the docs. You might want to check out App Engine or Compute Engine for hosting a site that needs server-side computation, and look at Cloud SQL for a MySQL db solution, although there are other solutions such as BigTable or Datastore.

Best wishes,

Nick 

[Nerou Daantos]

Thank you nick for responding in regards of this matter.

just wanna clarify if we build our website and have a database for it we are using xamp and phpmyadmin as our backend

does it mean we need to avail different product solutions for our database, our front end and etc?

thanks a lot. looking forward deploying our school website with google

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hey Nerou,

There are numerous ways you can inter-link the different services mentioned, and others, although for your needs, to directly transition from an XAMP server, you could simply spin up a Compute Engine instance and install the relevant software on it, including Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpmyadmin for interfacing with the DB, etc. Later on, you could modify parts of your codebase to make use of other services such as Cloud Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery (especially for logs analysis), or others.

In general, just spinning up a Compute Engine instance, you'll have access to all kinds of default services like Cloud Monitoring, and others, through the Developers Console.

Regards,

Nick

[Nerou Daantos]

okay thank you sir 😊

so just to put it simply having the compute engine i can host my entire non static website to google and run it? awesome!

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hey Nerou,

For sure, Compute Engine is basically just virtual private server hosting, but connected with all the other services, which makes it much more powerful than a standard VPS. You can follow the sign-up and getting-started instructions here in the docs.

Cheers,

Nick

[Nerou Daantos]

thanks for your quick response sir, google doesn't provide domain registration and etc right? just a hosting service? so i'll have to register for a domain separately correct?

-Thanks

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hey Nerou,

For domain registration, you can use Google Domains, which is relatively new and has the benefit of integrating tightly with all the rest of Google (including making use of our own network and nameservers), and you can configure your domain to point to your Compute Engine instance using Cloud DNS.

Let me know if you've got any more questions, as so far this is an excellent thread for future search-results.

Best wishes,

Nick

[Nerou Daantos]

Thank you so much :) looking forward on utilizing the google cloud for all our projects! 

I hope this may serve useful for newbies like me too :)