Status Update I’ve been running this site on Google Cloud for about three weeks now, and received by first bill. The cost was mostly the Cloud SQL instance that is running because of WordPress. It cost me USD 9.52 to run the site, where Cloud SQL was USD 9.50 out of those. Not too bad. The “problem” is that I’m not sure I need a WordPress instance for a personal website/blog.

New Home This is, by my account, my fourth website. The first website was hosted was hosted at my university website account. When I graduated, I temporary hosted on my own server running at home. Then after a fatal disk crash that took out my whole site, I decided to move to a managed hosting. It worked, but was expensive. Eventually, as the cloud computing and services got more popular, I decided to move to the cloud, first on the App Engine, and now on Cloud Run.