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That is what I am moving to. I currently use their hosting but plan on moving to a DigitalOcean box soon.

wlesieutre 8y ago
I remember when they launched with a $5/month hosting plan, then when they raised it to $10. Just looked at the pricing page and the minimum is now $36/month (or $29/month billed yearly). That's some serious sticker shock. Is it that much better than say, Squarespace?
- WesleyLivesay 8y ago
  I am fortunate enough to be on the $10 plan, but given how little traffic my site gets cutting it in half with the smallest DO box would still be nice.
  - penagwin 8y ago
    You could even go with vultr or ovh and cut it even lower.
  - wlesieutre 8y ago
    You could move from Ghost Pro to another Ghost provider without being completely manual. A quick google turned up FastComet at $2.95/month. Page claims 1-click Ghost installation, easy Ghost upgrade service, and daily/weekly Ghost backups. https://www.fastcomet.com/ghost-hosting https://www.fastcomet.com/ghost-hosting Yay open source!
- Sophistifunk 8y ago
  The thing is, it doesn't matter if it is that much better than Squarespace or WordPress, that's just way too much money for a personal blog, even before the conversion to AUD I'd have to face.
- kup0 8y ago
  These were my thoughts exactly. Maybe it just hasn't made business sense for them to host cheaper plans, since it's available to self-host. But you're right, even against competitors (Squarespace) it's quite a bit more expensive. Not sure what justifies such a gap.
  - wlesieutre 8y ago
    At one point it looks like they'd even jacked it up to $79/month minimum, and the $29/month basic plan was added since then [1]. I guess that didn't sell well. I have no experience with squarespace (just hear about them in podcasts), but I know they have pretty nice templates, they host blogs, stores (digital and physical), podcasts, and probably more, priced at $12 or $18/month. From a cursory glance through Ghost's site I'm not seeing what value they bring to the table that makes it worth more. Reeeeaaaallly good blog, I guess? [1] https://forum.ghost.org/t/300-increase-in-ghost-pro-packages/1829 https://forum.ghost.org/t/300-increase-in-ghost-pro-packages...
xgbi 8y ago
With a dedicated server, you can have fantasic results. I'm hosting a Ghost server with docker-compose and Traefik + Let's Encrypt, and the thing is snappy beyon belief. The server is a 14€/month with 16G/Corei5 2,8Ghz/2To HDD/1GB bandwidth. When you take in account the 15€ annually for the domain name, it comes twice cheaper that ghost. You can also host other things on that, since Ghost takes up maybe 500M of ram.

I remember when they launched with a $5/month hosting plan, then when they raised it to $10. Just looked at the pricing page and the minimum is now $36/month (or $29/month billed yearly). That's some serious sticker shock. Is it that much better than say, Squarespace?

WesleyLivesay 8y ago
I am fortunate enough to be on the $10 plan, but given how little traffic my site gets cutting it in half with the smallest DO box would still be nice.
- penagwin 8y ago
  You could even go with vultr or ovh and cut it even lower.
- wlesieutre 8y ago
  You could move from Ghost Pro to another Ghost provider without being completely manual. A quick google turned up FastComet at $2.95/month. Page claims 1-click Ghost installation, easy Ghost upgrade service, and daily/weekly Ghost backups. https://www.fastcomet.com/ghost-hosting https://www.fastcomet.com/ghost-hosting Yay open source!
Sophistifunk 8y ago
The thing is, it doesn't matter if it is that much better than Squarespace or WordPress, that's just way too much money for a personal blog, even before the conversion to AUD I'd have to face.
kup0 8y ago
These were my thoughts exactly. Maybe it just hasn't made business sense for them to host cheaper plans, since it's available to self-host. But you're right, even against competitors (Squarespace) it's quite a bit more expensive. Not sure what justifies such a gap.
- wlesieutre 8y ago
  At one point it looks like they'd even jacked it up to $79/month minimum, and the $29/month basic plan was added since then [1]. I guess that didn't sell well. I have no experience with squarespace (just hear about them in podcasts), but I know they have pretty nice templates, they host blogs, stores (digital and physical), podcasts, and probably more, priced at $12 or $18/month. From a cursory glance through Ghost's site I'm not seeing what value they bring to the table that makes it worth more. Reeeeaaaallly good blog, I guess? [1] https://forum.ghost.org/t/300-increase-in-ghost-pro-packages/1829 https://forum.ghost.org/t/300-increase-in-ghost-pro-packages...

xgbi 8y ago

With a dedicated server, you can have fantasic results. I'm hosting a Ghost server with docker-compose and Traefik + Let's Encrypt, and the thing is snappy beyon belief. The server is a 14€/month with 16G/Corei5 2,8Ghz/2To HDD/1GB bandwidth. When you take in account the 15€ annually for the domain name, it comes twice cheaper that ghost. You can also host other things on that, since Ghost takes up maybe 500M of ram.