Based on:

• https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/website-configuration
• https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/bucketnaming#verification
• https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/rsync
• https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/acl
• https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/mb

Create new Durable Reduced Availability bucket, use hostname as the bucket name:

gsutil mb -c DRA gs://static.example.com

To use standard bucket, remove "-c DRA" above.

Change the ACL for all objects to be publicly accessible:

gsutil -m acl set -R -a public-read gs://static.example.com

Set default ACL for new objects:

gsutil defacl set public-read gs://static.example.com

Upload content to the bucket:

gsutil -m rsync -d -r ~/public_html  gs://static.example.com

Turn off object versioning on the bucket:

gsutil versioning set off gs://static.example.com

Set index.html as the root directory index and 404.html as 404 error page:

gsutil web set -m index.html -e 404.html gs://static.example.com