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

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!

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..

Course Content

• Introduction –> 14 lectures • 44min.

Requirements

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

1. Blogging Platform
   1. Ghost
2. Hardware
   1. Google Compute Engine
3. Orchestration
   1. Docker
4. Database
   1. MySQL
5. Web Service
   1. Nginx
6. SSL Certificate
   1. Certbot

I 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!