Is Google Cloud Platform good hosting for small websites?

MehtaM

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Mar 9, 2020

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• Nov 17, 2020

• #1

I'm getting $300 in free credit for a year. Is it good enough to host 3-4 small wordpress websites?
Will I need cloudflare or not?

 

Couch Monkey Media

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Nov 8, 2009

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• Nov 17, 2020

• #2

depending on the amount of traffic your site has it should be fine. That is how google and aws get you they give a credit and then bandwidth charges start to add up pretty fast. For small site you should not need cloudflare

 

rajkumar31

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Feb 15, 2014

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• Nov 17, 2020

• #3

AWS and GCP is ok as long as you are in sandbox without much traffic. Cloudflare is free, so why not get it and distribute your website across continent for faster load time.

 

CyHead

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Apr 6, 2009

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• Nov 18, 2020

• #4

I think it's $300 credit but it lasts a year- whichever comes first.