TL;DR: I used to host my site on a virtual machine running Caddy webserver, but recently migrated it to Google Cloud Storage with Cloudflare in front of it as a proxy/cache/SSL termination solution. It’s pretty awesome! 😎
I also recorded a video about this setup on YouTube. ← Check out the video and subscribe if you are into this sort of thing 🙏
TL;DR: If you have a static website that needs to be password protected, using Google’s Identity Aware Proxy along with App Engine is one of the simplest ways to accomplish this.
If you want to follow along with a site of your own, I have provided a working example in this GitHub repo.
Note: I have also seen S3 + Lambda used to accomplish this
TL;DR: I used the K6 load testing framework to benchmark the Compute Engine f1-micro and Caddy web server hosting this site. With Cloudflare caching turned off, the server was able to serve an onslaught of 800 virtual users continuously reloading the page (while maintaining a median request duration of <400ms), but started dropping requests when increasing the load further.
TL;DR: Azure and Digital Ocean don’t charge for the compute resources used for the control plane, making AKS and DO the cheapest for running many, smaller clusters. For running fewer, larger clusters GKE is the most affordable option. Also, running on spot/preemptible/low-priority nodes or long-term committed nodes makes a massive impact across all of the platforms.
TL;DR: Configuring Cloud Build to automatically handle Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for this site based on Git triggers ended up being a bit trickier than I would have expected.
Alternate title: Just use Netlify.
TL;DR: Deploy a Hugo site to GCP for free in less time than it will take you to read this article (Github Repo with all referenced commands)
EDIT: In October 2020 I updated the hosting of this site to use GCS + Cloudflare](https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/10/gcs-cloudflare-hosting/).
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