I've changed my mind so many times when writing this article. Initially, I was writing about running Ghost on App Engine Flex, and then I started to write about running Ghost on App Engine Standard. Since I've had autoscaling problems with App Engine Standard, I've decided to write about running Ghost in App Engine Flex primarily. I will include the App Engine configuration to run it in Standard, at the end of the article, if you so wish.
Part 4 in the series, Migrating Wordpress to App Engine, looks at the lower-level configuration of Cloud SQL, migrating your database and deploying to App Engine.
Part 3 in the series Migrating Wordpress to App Engine looks at creating and configuring a Google Cloud Platform project, and setting up the relevant services within Google Cloud Platform.
A few years ago I took a look at Ghost, another take on a blogging/publishing platform. Around that time I was looking for an alternative to Wordpress, a modern alternative that focused on deliverying content rather than worrying about caching your site. Unforunately, back then, it was version 0, essentially a beta, and I decided the product wasn't ready. Now we're here in 2019 and this site has moved to Ghost.
Part 2 in series, Migrating Wordpress to App Engine, we take a look at installing the required applications for your Windows environment, preparing to start the migration process.
After a recent dive into Let's Encrypt, I came to realise that there are a lot of new features in ACME v2 that enable the ease of using Let's Encrypt. Let's take a new dive into Let's Encrypt utilising the new features.
After setting up our server with Open Litespeed, MariaDB and Webmin, let's look at securing the HTTPS server with SSL using Let's Encrypt.
Now we have everything set up and your website is running, you may be wondering if there is an easier way to manage your virtual machine? Don’t worry, we have you covered. Or should I say Webmin has you covered. If you find it difficult to manage an operating system via CLI, like myself, you will find Webmin is very easy to do that.
