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Create CentOS 7 VM & Update

sudo -i

Install Nginx

1. Configure Nginx to do load balancer

If you have multiple sites, you can configure Nginx to load balance between multiple servers.
There are two files you will need to change:

I was using LAMP for my WordPress blog for quite a few years. Because of Google Cloud Platform free tier VM's limitation (614M Memory and 1 vCPU), my website always suffering the performance issue if put all of components into one machine. Since last year, I keep trying using a different type of technologies to help. I tried to use Docker, also I separated Mysql db into a different vm. All those changes were working for certain conditions, but not a good enough for GCP f1.micro VM until I find Nginx and MariaDB. This combination has less resource usage and also providing me a possibility to squeeze all components into one GCP free tier f1.micro VM.

This post is to record all steps and commands I used. You will find a YouTube video at the end of post to present the installation process. The whole steps will take 30 minutes to 45 minutes to complete.

I were using Ubuntu 16.04 as my web server and mysql server for quite a few years. They are all in the same server , either running in a docker container or in a service. For better performance, I decided to separate them to different layer. I am going to use GCP Cloud SQL service as my database layer.