New Home
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.
Type | Comments |
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University website | Free, limited while I was a student |
Hosted site | Expensive |
App Engine | Relatively inexpensive, limited |
Cloud Run | Relatively inexpensive, powerful |
At the time I used App Engine, there was only the standard platform, with php5. The problem is, WordPress really wanted to use php7. I also found App Engine really limited because you were forced to use the languages and versions that Google provided. The flexible environment was still in beta (or alpha), and I was unable to set up SSL on my site, I pretty much abandoned the site. Things have changed a lot since I tried App Engine the first time. It is now easier to do what I want to do with this site.
So, using Cloud Run comes down to price. I don’t really have enough traffic on this site to pay for an always-running instance (although you can scale down to 0). Cloud Run seems to be faster in scaling up than App Engine Flexible Environment, while at the same time I can use container technology to set up the site.
I’m still deciding whether I should migrate my old posts over this new site, or if I want to start fresh. Time will tell.