Deploying an application to a Linux server on Google compute engine

Question

My developer has written a web scraping app on Linux on his private machine, and asked me to provide him with a Linux server. I setup an account on Google Compute Engine, created a Linux image with enough resources and a sufficiently large SSD drive. Three weeks later he is claiming that working on Google is too complex quote - "google is complex because their deployment process is separate for all modules. especially i will have to learn about how to set a scheduler and call remote scripts (it looks they handle these their own way)."

He suggests I create an account on Hostgator.com.

I appreciate that I am non-technical, but I cannot be that difficult to use Linux on Google?! Am I missing something? Is there any advice you could give me?

Answer 1

Regarding the suggestion to create an account on Hostgator to utilize what I presume would be a VPS in lieu of a Virtual Machine on GCE , I would suggest seeking a more concrete example from the developer.

For instance, the comment about the "scheduler", let's refer to it as some process that needs to execute on a regular basis:

1. How is this 'process' currently accomplished on the private machine ?
2. How would it be done on the VPS ?
3. What is preventing this 'process' from being done on the GCE VM ?