Moving providers
I chose to move from Google Cloud to Linode this week. Linode feels better suited to hobbyists than Google Cloud. That may change over time, as Linode was acquired by Akamai, and my understanding is that Akamai is targeting enterprise businesses.
At any rate, getting started on Linode was much easier than Google Cloud – Linode offers getting started guides that are to the point, and helpful, and walks through initial setup of a virtual machine. I also appreciate how easy Linode makes it for me to connect to my virtual machine. Google Cloud offers SSH, but it feels that Cloud IAM configuration gets in the way of letting me just get to work on my VM.
The hardest part of the move was finding a helpful guide for installing all the necessary parts for WordPress. Once I got that figured out, installation is fairly quick. A WordPress database and website backup from my Google Cloud VM and extraction / restore on my Linode VM made the process fairly easy, too.
I intend to post the procedure and command I used here later.