Google Cloud Server Guide

Important Information

• Google cloud gives you $300 free credit when you sign up for a new account, all $300 has to be used within a year of signing up or the credits expire.

• Since you get $300 free credit you can let the server run 24/7 which is good for restocks.

• Create your server a week or so before a drop because google cloud generally runs out of IP addresses close to drop time.

• You can check how much credits you have left in the billing section of google cloud.

Setting up your server

1. First sign up for your free trial with google cloud here https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial/signup/tos, once your account gets activated you will have $300 in free trial credit
2. Create a project, the name for the project doesn’t matter, i generally leave mine as it is.

3. Once the project is created go to the Compute Engine tab. You'll see it under the Compute section

4. Once you’re on the compute engine screen you'll press “Create” and come to a screen that looks like this.

Name- You can name the server whatever you like.

Zone/Region- Select the region where your proxies are located, most proxies are virginia so use “us-east4” as your region.

Machine type- In the Machine Type section i recommend using atleast 4 vCPUS.

Boot Disk- In the Boot disk section you should use either Windows Server 2016 R2 Datacenter or Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter

Firewall- In the Firewall section, make sure both options are checked off

Now Press Create.

Accessing your server

1. If you are on a Mac you can download the Windows RDP from the App Store, PCs usually have Microsoft RDP installed already.

2. Once you start your instance it will look like this
3. Once your server is up and running you will click the RDP Button and click on “Set Windows Password”. Make sure to keep this password somewhere in your computer so you don't lose it.
4. Once you open RDP itll ask for the external Ip address and the windows password which you just set.

5. Once you get connected to your server go to your “server manager” it usually opens itself when you first open the server. In your server manager go to Local Server and turn Enhanced Security Configuration On and turn off all other options.

6. Install google chrome by going onto internet explorer and going here https://www.google.com/chrome. Once chrome is installed you can install discord and your bots and you are all set!

Turning off your server

Once you are finished with your server you can turn it off or delete it if you are close to running out of credits by clicking on the 3 dots on the right side of your virtual instance page and either clicking “stop” or clicking “delete”.