Host a Ghost Blog on Google Compute Engine

The Google Cloud Platform has everything you need. You can host application with automatic scalability on App Engine, store data in the Dastastore (NoSQL) or the Cloud SQL, manage large amount of data with Big Query, or store assets in Cloud Storage.
But you can also have a full server with Compute Engine, with an API to start it, shutdown, clone, etc. So when we decided to open a blog here at LumApps, and especially a Ghost blog, we didn't think twice before using Google Compute Engine.

Table of contents:

1. Initialization
   
   1. Project creation
   2. Server creation
2. Installation
   
   1. Ghost installation
   2. Startup script
3. Finalization
4. Conclusion

Initialization

First, we needed to create a new Google Cloud project and a new server.

Project creation

To