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Creating Images with AI
Google’s Bard Generative AI is now capable of generating images based on prompts. Here are a few that I generated.
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Fortify Your Fortress: Security Best Practices for WordPress on Cloud VMs
Introduction In the vast landscape of the internet, ensuring the security of your WordPress site on Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) is paramount. This post delves into the importance of securing your WordPress instance on Cloud VMs and provides valuable tips on fortifying both the VM environment and the WordPress installation itself. Let’s embark on the…
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Turbocharge Your Website: Performance Optimization Tips for WordPress on VMs
Introduction Speed is of the essence in the digital world, and your WordPress site’s performance plays a pivotal role in user satisfaction and search engine rankings. In this post, we’ll explore essential techniques for optimizing WordPress performance on Virtual Machines (VMs). From leveraging caching to harnessing the power of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and mastering…
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Elevate Your Website: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up WordPress on Cloud VMs
Introduction As we continue our exploration into the dynamic duo of WordPress and Cloud hosting, it’s time to dive into the nitty-gritty of setting up WordPress on Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs). This step-by-step guide will take you through the process of deploying WordPress on popular Cloud providers, and we’ll round off with a comparison of…
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Unleashing the Power: Introduction to WordPress and Cloud Hosting
Introduction In the dynamic realm of web development, WordPress stands tall as a versatile and user-friendly content management system (CMS). Paired with the prowess of Cloud hosting, the possibilities are boundless. In this post, we embark on a journey to explore the fundamentals of WordPress, the advantages of hosting it on Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs),…
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Moving Again
I have now moved to Oracle Cloud, because Oracle has a free server available with 4 vCPUs and 24 GB of RAM. This makes the web server really fast. I am very happy with it.
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New Server
I have just moved this blog to a new Debian 10 Server on Google Cloud Platform. It is still their micro platform which should keep me in the free tier. I originally built this server to see if I could use the Google load balancer to simplify the server config and eliminate the managing the…
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One More Update
I have added this site to Cloudflare with a free account. This allowed(required) me to move the DNS service to Cloudflare DSN and remove the Google DNS that Google charges a few cents a month for. It also add the benefit of caching this site for users not close to my server. So now on…
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Update to Hosting
I have moved the blog to a single server hosted on Google Cloud Platform. I followed the instructions provided by Chris Titus Tech. This should get me to almost zero for hosting costs. Especially since I am the only one to visit this blog.
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Technology Behind This Blog
I just recently moved this blog from a Web Hosting company to the Google Cloud Platform. As of this writing, this blog is hosted on a Debian 9 Linux server with the back end database on Google Cloud SQL. If you are interested in the how and why of this, keep reading. I am paying…