Posts tagged with "gce"


  • Jul 28, 2026

    Cloudflare Tunnel For Comments

    A while ago I migrated from Wordpress to static web hosting using Jekyll. Obviously, there is one problem, which is that I can no longer have comments (static website remember). So I need a comments engine that runs on a server somewhere which stores all the user comments and then have a frontend JS code that fetches the comments for the blog post. After experimenting with a few of them (Disqus, Remark42, etc), I eventually went with Commento, running on a small Google Compute Engine (GCE) instance. But some problems that I did not sign up for started showing up soon after.

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  • Jun 13, 2019

    Updating OS in Google Compute Engine

    A few days ago, I decided to update my Google Compute Engine instance which was running an older Debian version. This was the same instance that is hosting this WordPress blog, so I had to be careful not to break anything lest I lose all the data and/or the service can be down. This post is a recount of my journey through the update process because I found some interesting things about Google Compute Engine (GCE) and how things can break if you are not careful and how things can go very smoothly if you plan properly.

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