A few days ago, I noticed something strange on my Google Cloud Platform billing dashboard. While my main compute engine cost remained constant, there was a recurring micro-charge—a few cents to a couple of dollars every month—under storage fees. While a few cents or a couple of hundred Korean Won might seem trivial at first … Read more
In South Korea, there is a brilliant piece of modern slang called “Mung-Chung Bee-Yong” (멍청비용), which literally translates to “The Stupidity Tax.” It represents the financial penalty you pay not because of an economic crisis, inflation, or a broken system, but simply because you did something incredibly dense, lazy, or slow. It is the money … Read more
I recently opened my Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing dashboard expecting to see a clean, beautiful $0.00. After all, I am running a microscopic WordPress instance on the historical e2-micro architecture, which sits comfortably within Google’s heavily advertised “Always Free” tier. Instead, I was greeted by a ridiculously tiny, yet deeply offensive charge: 215 KRW … Read more
“Deploy a WordPress site in 5 minutes with just one click!” If you look up tutorials on how to host a free website on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), this is the golden methodology everyone recommends. The GCP Marketplace offers a magical button called “Click-to-Deploy.” For beginners who are terrified of the Linux terminal and SSH … Read more
I thought I learned my lesson. I really did. In my previous post, I laid out the anatomy of how I let Google Cloud Platform (GCP) siphon money from my wallet due to a ghost server. I diagnosed the technical error, exposed the marketplace illusion, and officially declared that the billing meter was back to … Read more