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WindedHero
WindedHero

Reputation: 185

Is it recommended to use GCE as a web server?

I'm new to the whole cloud concept. I have set up a Windows VM with GCE, remote desktopped into it, installed Apache HTTPD and set the firewall rules, turning this Google GCE into a web server. I intend to install Perl, which is my primary programming language and isn't supported in App Engine. I am looking for an alternative to my current hosting solution for better uptime and availability, or at least a fall-back service.

Is it recommended to use GCE in this way or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 115

Answers (1)

Grzenio
Grzenio

Reputation: 36649

GCE is a very general solution, you can use your VM for whatever purpose you want. In particular GCE is recommended for all workloads that do not fit in the rather strict limitations of App Engine.

Having said that, web hosting was probably the first and main use case for GCE when it was being implemented. On top of having a single VM serving your traffic you can trivially scale your solution up by using load balancers and/or autoscaling. On top of that you can use a managed DB if your web server needs storage, etc. So the answer is, yes, GCE is definitely designed to be used as a web server.

Upvotes: 1

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