I too found the hosted Ghost platform expensive for personal use, and when I thought of self-hosting, I was discouraged from trying it by some people who know b

I too found the hosted Ghost platform expensive for personal use, and when I thought of self-hosting, I was discouraged from trying it by some people who know better. They said that Ghost's developers have focused on making it work on their hosting platform and that it's a bag of hurt (or soon turns into one) elsewhere. Sadly, I had to use WordPress even though I don't like the platform's security related issues and how its plugin systems can make users shoot themselves in the foot (on complexity, site speed, site stability and security exposure). What I'm looking for is a lean and nice CMS that comes with some batteries included, and can generate good static sites and also work for dynamic ones.