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The author's post seemed to target a developer blogger audience as opposed to regular people. With this particular image, there's virtually no DO configuration
by tedmiston 8y ago
The author's post seemed to target a developer blogger audience as opposed to regular people.
With this particular image, there's virtually no DO configuration (just standard size / region settings which have smart defaults IIRC). You do have to SSH in, but the new Ghost 2.0 CLI handles updating Ghost much more smoothly than in the past. I've been happy with it personally.
- npunt 8y agoThe DO one-click is super easy, but the SSL config and adding Cloudflare wound up being a huge pain. DO's docs aren't great and that meant I spent hours in config land just trying to get tablestakes blog features of HTTPS and DDoS protection. Ghost 2.0 is definitely better than prior versions but still needs babysitting. As an infrequent blogger, I've found I am updating Ghost more frequently than I'm blogging. Github pages or Gatsby (via something like Netlify) are much better suited to this problem because server config & SSL are handled and they're just serving static pages.
- tedmiston 8y agoI used Cloudflare with Ghost pre-2.0 but switched to Let's Encrypt for 2.0 [1]. I found this easier than using Cloudflare with 2.0 which handles auto renewing the cert as well. [1]: https://docs.ghost.org/integrations/lets-encrypt/ https://docs.ghost.org/integrations/lets-encrypt/