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Well you'll love Ghost! https://ghost.org For my own curiosity -- would you blog more often if someone offered you cheap(er than ghost.org) hosted ghost instance from which you're free to take your data any time? [EDIT] - To make it more concrete, let's say someone gave you a ghost blog that was free with a soft-capped at 100 visits/day (and $5/month after)
The (seemingly) hard scarcity limit on users is where Ghost loses me. By capping your tiers at number of users you are losing a lot of people who might otherwise use your platform, imo. Here's my reasoning: You need to get lots of users to market to so that you can convert those users to paying subscribers. Getting people to sign up for notifications is one thing, getting them to pay money is a whole other propositio…
Maybe it's better to just do a single no-bullshit price and run unlimited ghost instances for people -- and once you know the scale that a particular instance can take, different tiers for the very large instances. Maybe one price (let's say $10) + custom? But at this point you'll be overwhelmed by users with very large followings which generate tons of traffic.
And if you go by a strictly bandwidth model, then people are vulnerable to overages...