#Google cloud compute engine ftp server for free#
#Google cloud compute engine ftp server free#

I could have set the SSH key here (in security) but I wasn’t ready for that yet so I just left everything as the default settings and clicked “Create” at the bottom of the page. The other options that I chose was to allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic through the firewall (more on this later) and I enabled deletion protection so I don’t accidentally delete it. However, I switched the boot disk to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS minimal on 10GB standard persistent disk. If you go with the default region, you you have a choice of standard or premium networking later on when setting up a static IP address. I chose London as I wanted to keep it in the UK the same as the AWS instance that I created previously. You click “Create” from here.Įdit the instance details. You’ll have to wait a few minutes but by default you should land on the VM Instances page. Don’t worry about this, it will use your credits and you will be asked before your credit runs out if you want to continue with it and be charged. If they do charge anything then it will be a nominal amount to verify your card as the banks haven’t invested a way for online applications to do that without putting a payment through or at least a payment authorisation.Ĭlick “Got It” on the welcome message and then click on “Compute Engine”.

You will not be charged and they claim it is to stop robots signing up. The next requires you to identify if this is a business or individual account and then requires your name, address and payment card details.

The first requires that you select your country and accept the different terms and conditions appropriate to your country. Once you are in, you will have a two step Google Cloud Platform sign-up. However, if I wasn’t logged in, I would have had this screen to either log-in or create an account. I was using Google Chrome and was already logged into my Google account so skipped the account creation steps. Click on the “Get Started For Free” button. Getting startedįirst of all, you can get started at. I won’t set up Apache, PHP or MySQL as I’ve covered those previously and the method is the same regardless of Ubuntu provider. I will include a static IP address so I can point a domain name at it and I will set up SSH access from PuTTY.

#Google cloud compute engine ftp server free#

You will be billed monthly for what you use but you can turn off instances that you don’t need and turn them back on when you do.Īnyway, as I created a free Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server using Amazon Web Services, I thought I would do the same on the Google Cloud Platform. If you want to continue after the 12 months are up on AWS or Azure or after your credit is used or the 12 months are up on Google Cloud Services (which ever comes first) then you will have to pay. Just in case you are wondering, Microsoft Azure offers similar to AWS in their “free for 12 months” solutions but they also offer a $150 credit to explore other services in the first 30 days. However, it does mean you can try out higher specification builds and get them free although not for 12 months. one continuously on instance), 1 CPU, 1Gb RAM and a maximum of 30Gb HDD) but GCP gives a much wider range, although it only lasts until your credit runs out.

#Google cloud compute engine ftp server for free#

There is one main difference between the two Amazon provide a micro-server for 12 months for free as long as you stay within the allowable package where as Google provide you with a $300 credit that can last up to a maximum of 12 months.Īmazon limits the free server instance for your account 750 hours up-time per month (i.e. After writing about the free (for one year) server available from AWS ( see here), I thought I would write about a similar free server from Google Cloud Platform (GCP).