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  • Step 1: Launching your Google Cloud Instance
  • Step 2: Connecting via SSH to your Instance
  • Step 3: Update / upgrade your VPS

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To launch your Google Cloud instance, follow the steps below.

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Google Cloud has a free tier for new users. You get $300 to spend on Google Cloud Platform products during your first 12 months

Step 1: Launching your Google Cloud Instance

Go to and click on “Get Started for Free”. Login using an existing account or create a new one.

After you login and validate your credit card, you will be shown a page pretty much like this one. Click on “Compute Engine” and then in “VM Instances”.

Click on the Create button to make a new instance

We recommend to name it something like "pangaea” (the instance name cannot be changed). Select the Machine type as “Custom” and set up 4 vCPU’s and 4GB of Memory.

Keep everything default after you have configured the cores and memory.

Click Create. Please wait a few minutes for your instance

Once the instance is created. We will open 4 ingoing ports. To do this click on "nic0" as shown below. In the next page click on “Firewall rules” and after that on “CREATE FIREWALL RULE”.

  • TCP 6000

  • TCP 9000

Step 2: Connecting via SSH to your Instance

Go back to the VM instances page and click on SSH. This will open a new window and connect via SSH to your instance:

Step 3: Update / upgrade your VPS

Before anything, it is recommended to update your system:

sudo apt update && apt upgrade

You will be asked to confirm if you would like to download and install these packages. Just press Y to confirm.

For the Boot Disk, we recommend the latest LTS version of Ubuntu (18.04 as of date of now). Change the boot disk size to the .

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minimum storage requirements
https://cloud.google.com/free