Google Cloud

Options: Compute Engine (VM, recommended) or Cloud Run (containers).

Option 1: Compute Engine (recommended)

1. Create a VM: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (or Debian), e2-small (2 GB) is enough to start. Choose a region close to your users.
2. Firewall rule: allow inbound TCP 8080 (and 443 for TLS). Under Network → Firewall, create a rule with the target tags you assigned to the VM.
3. SSH in (the console's SSH button works) and follow the generic VPS guide:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iqbqioza/nostrfy/main/install.sh | sh
sudo mkdir -p /etc/nostrfy
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/nostrfy/nostrfy.toml \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iqbqioza/nostrfy/main/deploy/nostrfy.toml
sudo nano /etc/nostrfy/nostrfy.toml                 # set name, public_url, private_key
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/systemd/system/nostrfy.service \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iqbqioza/nostrfy/main/deploy/nostrfy.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now nostrfy

4. Reserve a static IP (External IP → Reserve) so public_url stays valid across reboots.
5. Verify:

curl http://<external-ip>:8080/health

6. Add TLS (wss://) with certbot + nginx (as in the VPS guide) or a GCP load balancer with a managed certificate.

Option 2: Cloud Run (container)

Cloud Run builds from the repository Dockerfile (which downloads the pre-built release binary):

1. Create a service from the GitHub repo (or push the image to Artifact Registry).
2. Port: set the container port to 8080.
3. Allocate memory: at least 512 MB (LMDB + the async runtime).
4. Persistent storage: attach a Cloud Run volume (filestore/gcsfuse) at /data — LMDB needs a filesystem, so a GCS FUSE mount at /data works for persistence.
5. TLS: Cloud Run provides https:// automatically — set relay.public_url = "wss://<service>.a.run.app" (or your custom domain).