Google Compute Engine Archives ⋆ Nikles dabbling in Game Dev

Steps towards a readable, usable and fast blog

ByNikles November 24, 2015December 1, 2015

I’m not new to blogging but I wanted to make something unusual (based on my standards). What I wanted was simple: Google Compute Engine WordPress Just enough themes, plugins and optimizations to get things done. Fast. This blog is the result. In the coming days I’m going to write the steps I’ve taken (and the…

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Google Cloud vs Amazon AWS – WordPress Performance

ByNikles November 24, 2015December 2, 2015

Whenever I say this WordPress blog is hosted in the cloud, people automagically assume I’m using Amazon AWS. Wrong! I’m using Google Compute Engine and let me show you why. Setup: These were the plugins I installed, activated and configured in both instances. Akismet: 3.1.5 Bulk Images to Posts: 3.3 BulkPress: 0.3.4 Google XML Sitemaps:…