Reserve A Static External IP Address in the Google Cloud Platform.

What is an IP

It is the address on which your website is installed. This IP address is in digits, and that would be tough to remember. To easily remember, we dedicate Domain Name to these IP addresses. When we enter these DNS, e.g., seoneurons.com, it calls to the IP attached with it. And you’re here on this page.

Static IP and Dynamic IP

Static IP means the IP that doesn’t change automatically and is dedicated to a particular address. And dynamic IP changes will change if you restart the instance or with time without your concern. By default, your instance has a dynamic IP, so you’ve to reserve a static one.

Reserve Static IP Address for your machine.

You can reserve it using two methods. We’ll discuss both.

Method. 1: Reserve Existing IP Address for Your WordPress/ other Applications

For this, you’ve to visit VPC Network >External IP Address

Now you can click on Ephemeral and choose static, then reserve the IP. Enter the name for a reserved IP (only to remark).

Method. 2: Reserve Existing IP Address for Your WordPress/ other Applications

In this, you’ve to visit VPC Network >External IP Address, the same page as above.

Now click on reserve a static Address.

1. Enter the name for your IP address
2. Provide description (optional).
3. Type of Network Service
4. Choose IP type, usually IPv4.
5. Select the type of IP Address in Regional or Global
6. The region where your host your WordPress application.
7. Select Attached to; options will be available only after selecting the right region (point 6).

You reserved a static IP address on Google Cloud Platform. Now you’ll need to add a custom domain name for your WordPress website.

If you are on a trial period, you’ll be limited to 1 static IP for each zone, and a total of 5 static IPs can be reserved.

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Understand why you should install WordPress on Google Cloud?

Installation of WordPress on Google is a bit complicated if compared with other service providers. You have to perform almost all operations with the command for installation setup. But it is one time of installation, and for that, we’re here. We’ll guide you for WordPress with Bitnami NGINX, Apache application.

Setup machine and Make all under your control, SEO Friendly

You can perform unlimited tasks with your WordPress CMS when Google Cloud Platform backs it. GCP can be used if you think that your site can grow in the future drastically.

Suppose in another managed hosting provider you buy a shared hosting plan, but later you want to change that plan, and you can’t due to hosting not allowing you to do so.

In Google Cloud Platform(GCP), you can upgrade, downgrade anytime, anywhere when you want. And also you’ve to pay per minute, not per annum. And one more best part is, you can access a three-month free trial worth $300.

You can create your own machine by installing the desired operating system inserting a hard disk(space) as per your requirement.

Instance: This is a machine Processor you can select from various options available. GCP has a limitless processor as per your need from f1-micro to huge 224 vCPU in the single instance so that you can upgrade anytime from the various options available.

Operating System: You can choose any operating system from like Linux, Debian, Windows, etc. We recommend installing any pre-designed image like Bitnami, Google Click to Deploy, and many more, as these are more stable.

Disk Space: You can choose any disk size from 10GB to 64TB of any type like HDD, SSD, or Balance Persistent Disk. Zone or location of your server: You can choose the location according to your website traffic from the various options available with GCP.

Dedicated IP Address: You’ll get your own dedicated IP Address for your instance. This will make an edge in Search Engine Optimization so that your site can grow faster.

Content Delivery Network (CDN): If you like to set up a CDN for your application, you can do that too by paying an additional cost of $0.26/month only.

You can set up free SSL certificates for your WordPress websites. And also, you can choose your web server from NGINX or Apache.

WordPress Cost on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

1. Zone: Cost depends on which zone you’re choosing for your WordPress Website/Blog hosting.
2. You can choose an instance as per your need from f1-micro to 224 vCPU nextgen processors. This would cost you from $4 to $6 for an f1-microprocessor,
3. Disk space cost as per kind of memory like HDD, SSD, or Balance Persistent Disk. Here for 10GB SSD, it costs $0.8 per month.
4. Traffic policy for HTTP and HTTPS allow connection through
5. Processor and Storage’s display costs are around $7; after that, there is a Sustainable Usage Discount of $2/month. So the final cost will be around $5. That will be sufficient if compared to the other hosting provider.
6. Software image contains all the applications that need for a WordPress application.

In that much amount, you can get a limited plan on any other website hosting provider like they provide a 100000 user limit for $8/month. That is costly as compared to the Google Cloud Platform.

We’ll explain how you can install Bitnami WordPress with Apache and with NGINX web-server. And also how you can install multiple WordPress applications on a single virtual machine(VM).

You can check out our tutorial guide on How to Install Bitnami NGINX WordPress on Google Cloud Platform.

If you like to learn WordPress, then you can install WordPress in your machine’s localhost. So you can do some experiments to understand the functionality of the CMS.

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