Every self-hosted WordPress developer eventually goes through the same rite of passage. You log into your dashboard, navigate to the Permalinks setting, change your URL structure from a messy date format to a clean /post-name/ style, and hit save. You navigate back to your home page, click an article link, and the screen goes completely … Read more
Images are the silent killers of the modern open web. We live in an era where everyone snaps a screenshot, drags the crisp, lossless PNG file straight into their WordPress editor, and clicks publish without a second thought. On a massive, scalable enterprise server, this is fine. On a free 30GB Standard Persistent Disk running … Read more
Let’s talk about living on the edge. Not the edge of cutting-edge technology, but the knife-edge of server system memory. When you deploy a “free” WordPress site on Google Cloud Platform’s e2-micro instance, you are given exactly 1 gigabyte of RAM. In the modern web ecosystem, 1GB of RAM is not an architecture; it is … Read more
Let’s be entirely honest. I am not okay. I am not one of those toxic-positivity tech gurus who gets knocked down, smiles at the camera, and says, “Failure is just an opportunity to grow!” No. When Google Cloud Platform (GCP) charged me $20 for my own hesitation, and Google Adsense simultaneously delivered a cold, automated … Read more
Why I Stopped Chasing a “Perfect” WordPress Design When I first started building my WordPress blog, I thought design was everything. I spent hours comparing themes, adjusting spacing, changing fonts, testing color palettes, and rebuilding the homepage over and over again. Every time I visited another blog, I felt like mine was incomplete. Something always … Read more
Why I Underestimated WordPress Menus I thought WordPress menus would be one of the easiest parts of building a website. Just create a few categories, connect them to the menu, and move on. That was my expectation. Instead, I spent hours trying to understand why pages, categories, sidebars, dropdowns, and post lists all behaved differently. … Read more
Installing WordPress Was the Easy Part I thought installing WordPress on GCP would be the difficult part. It wasn’t. The real problem started when I tried to set up SSL. At first, everything seemed simple. I had already launched a small free-tier GCP server, connected my domain, and installed WordPress successfully. The site worked, but … Read more
The $10 Confession: How I Hypnotized Myself into Google Cloud’s Bitter Billing Trap Let’s cut the crap. I am an idiot. Or more accurately, I managed to play the part of a textbook idiot for exactly two months, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) charged me 10,148 KRW (about $7.50) to officially certify it. What makes … Read more
I Thought GCP Free Tier Was Free — Until Google Charged Me Months Later When I started building my WordPress blog, I wanted one thing above all else: a server that cost as close to $0 as possible. That’s why I chose Google Cloud Platform’s famous Free Tier instead of AWS or Lightsail. Google advertises … Read more
GCP 워드프레스 이미지 포맷 왜 중요할까? JPG PNG WebP 차이 (+썸네일 오류 원인) #16 GCP 무료 서버에 워드프레스를 설치하고 글을 쓰다 보면 이미지 업로드 하나에도 생각보다 많은 문제가 생깁니다. 이전 글에서 다뤘던 “The server cannot process the image” 오류도 결국 이미지 처리 문제에서 시작되는데요. 이번에는 그 근본 원인인 이미지 포맷과 해상도(px)에 대해 정리해보겠습니다. 이미지 포맷은 … Read more