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Best Web Hosting for Indianapolis?
Google announced in April 2024 that it is building a $2B Data Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/.
There are many opinions, options, companies, prices, layers and dimensions when it comes to webhosting, but it boils down to the physical infrastructure, the location, the hardware, the company, the price, and the cost to deploy, run, manage, other services, and so on, I mean back in the day I hosted my first sites from home, those days where fun but...Your Hosting infrastructure needs to be robust, reliable, fast, secure, and also simple (well Hello Google).
So if your a local business selling services locally here in Indianapolis, IN, then you want your server as close as possible to you and your customers, this makes things faster, and maybe even cheaper. You might be able to use standard local networks, instead of premium global networking.
Google Cloud, a Powerful Foundation
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a robust and efficient hosting solution that can significantly boost your website's SEO performance.
Scalability: You can easily scale your resources up or down to accommodate changing traffic needs, ensuring optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.
In essence, Google Cloud provides a powerful foundation for your website's SEO success. By leveraging its advanced features and robust infrastructure, you can significantly improve your website's performance, security, and overall user experience.
By combining these and other strategies with the power of Google Cloud, you can significantly enhance your website's visibility and drive much more organic traffic.
Access to all Google Cloud products
Get everything you need to build and run your apps, websites and services, including Firebase and the Google Maps API.
Start deploying pre-built solutions for free
20+ products with free tier
You also Get free monthly usage of AI APIs, Compute Engine, BigQuery, and other popular products up to monthly limits—not charged against your $300 free credit.
Your Free Tier e2-micro instance, Compute Engine free tier does not charge for an external IP address, 30 GB-months standard persistent disk
https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/compute-getting-started
$300 credit for free
Get $300 to spend in 90 Days
Put Google Cloud to work with the trial and free credits to spend on most products and services, just to try them out and see how awesome GCP is. Apply your $300 free credit toward deploying pre-built solutions, such as a dynamic WordPress website, load-balanced VM, web apps, Cloud DNS, CDN,
No auto charge after free trial ends
They require a credit card to make sure you are not a spammy robot. If you use a credit or debit card, you won't be charged unless you manually activate your full account. Then only for the usage and use of products and services you have and are using.
Simple SEO Hosting Strategy
There are two methods, the free basic google site, or a fully functioning WordPress website setup and installed on the Google Cloud Platform or a hybrid setup using the combination of both
1st Method: Use Free Google Site (sites.google.com)
The first and easiest way to start, is head over to sites.google.com, then create a free site (limited, but worthy, and AD free), connect your own domain name real easy
2nd Method: Use Google Cloud, Compute Engine, WordPress
This is used for advanced SEO, website tools, blogging and other web technologies and applications such as lead generation and management, and form collection, Maps, The list goes on
3rd Method: Hybrid, Combination of Both First and Second
This is a method I prefer right now, I use my free google site as my "landing site", and my WordPress under a sub domain. I can always rely on the google free site for uptime, speed, compatibility, SEO and no problems, never, this will be for my basic content and information, nothing fancy. Then you deploy a free GCP WordPress blog under a subdomain. Go a little farther and add in a load balancer to control traffic(get a free managed SSL Cert "https" from google). you could go even farther and use cloud DNS, and cloud CDN.
Enable AllowOverwrite on GCP
If you deploy a WordPress website on Google Cloud Hosting you should know that the AllowOverwrite is None by default and you can’t use the .htaccess for caching and security filters.
Have you tried changing permalink setting in admin then changing them back but this didn’t work?
You will need to do this to fix issues with google click to deploy wordpress on GCP, or SSL using a load balancing redirect, it creates a permalink issue and also maybe a https redirect issue
Enable Apache AllowOverride
To enable the .htaccess rewrites, you need to edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and make sure that it is configured with AllowOverride All instead of the default AllowOverride None for your web root directory. This tells apache it is ok for settings in .htaccess files to override settings. Use this command to modify the file.
https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances then SSH console
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Once you’re in there, find the right spot and change it.
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride ALL <----(edit from none)
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save the file changes with Ctrl + X and then press Y .
After you’ve made that change, make sure to restart the server:
sudo service apache2 restart
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GCP VM instance via SSH
https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances
cd /var/www/html/
Use the WordPress command line interface (WP-CLI) to activate the plugin:
Example command: wp plugin activate <plugin-name>
sudo chmod 644 .htaccess
sudo nano .htaccess
ls -a
so with a gmail account, head over to GCP, then start trial, create a billing account, add a payment method, you can now access the platform, you should have a 300$/90 day credit, keep in mind your card is connected, dont just click things. now we need to set up a wordpress site on a compute vm, the best way is the google click to deploy in their market place, we will quickly deploy a small wordpress website, you can deploy and always use the smallest under the free tier, with a free external IP. Now you are on the GCP with a free Unlocked WordPress Site running on your own VM, now promote the ip to static, then you can link your domain name to it.
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