Google Workspace

WP-Stateless connects to Google Cloud Storage (GCS). It does not support Google Workspace Drive.

GCS isn’t expensive, and you get $300 at signup.

Hi @iderico, thanks for replying.
Ok I’ll check the costs.
A couple more questions, will you also have to purchase the Google Cloud CDN service to work well?
So can I completely delete the contents of my Media folder and have it directly on Google Cloud Storage?
Database links won’t change?
Will I still see files in the Media backend as if they were on my hosting server?

Thank you!

will you also have to purchase the Google Cloud CDN service to work well?

No. Google Cloud CDN is not required.

So can I completely delete the contents of my Media folder and have it directly on Google Cloud Storage?

Yes. The Stateless and Ephemeral modes support this.

Database links won’t change

Depends how the image URLs are used on the frontend. If they are obtained dynamically by referencing the attachment object, they will update automatically. If the image URL is simply added directly, such as the Editor field, it will not be updated automatically. You can use a database find/replace tool to handle these situations.

Will I still see files in the Media backend as if they were on my hosting server

Yes – they will load directly from Google Cloud Storage.

Wait I don’t understand, should I work on the database?

In my current case I would have to use it on a site that has 90GB of media, images attached to articles and featured images.
So the ideal is that everything should remain as it is with the links referring to the media folder, but that they are returned by Google.
In this way no site would have to change and at any time in case of problems you could go back with a simple upload of the files.

Thank you

Hi @ideric,
I’m sorry, just to understand, given the amount of media, I can’t do tests.

I would like to make sure that I have all the media files in Google Cloud Storage, then delete them from my server, but still have them visible in the WP Media backend, so I can attach them as I normally would from WP.

Currently, therefore, the entire site has images attached by WP Media.

I ask you, in this case should I make changes to the DB, or can I continue to have all the current links, is the connection done virtually?

Thank you

I highly recommend creating a staging environment with a similar configuration and playing with WP-Stateless. It’s critical that you see how this plays out in a test environment before working with production.