lol when did Wordpress become the “Ghost alternative”? I thought it was the other way around?
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#12Quite happy with `sveltekit-blog-template`. Deployed for free on Vercel.
TANSTAAFL
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#13Looks interesting, but the website doesn't give nearly enough information for me to even consider signing up.
What are the themes? What are the custom optimisation options? Can I tweak the CSS? What sites are already using it? Can I see examples? What content modelling options are there? Is there a free trial? Am I locked in? Can I export my data?
Etc.
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#14lol when did Wordpress become the “Ghost alternative”? I thought it was the other way around?
The title means “alternative to WordPress and Ghost”.
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#15I just finished migrating https://nostashapp.com Into a serverless stack. Literally I close the laptop 30 minutes ago. So something can still be a bit wrong. Nostash cover a tiny market of note taking. I wanted a space over the internet where I could write documents and have them available to anybody to read. You can create documents, make them public, make them back private and just share the URL. The stack is AWS L…
> Into a serverless stack.
But why? Cost?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
WordPress.org doesn't offer hosting, and once you install it on a $5/mo VPS you're way past $29/yr.
If you already have a server, it's essentially free.
Most of the people who are interested in WordPress or Ghost don't already have a server.
This is the classic HN Dropbox reaction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
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#18How is it the best? The biggest thing is, is this a sustainable price? And what if I want to move elsewhere? WordPress is still pretty popular because you can pack up and take your WordPress content and data anywhere (either built-in export/import; or something like All in One Migration)
You can do the same with Ghost—pack up and take your Ghost content and data to any host (using the ghost-cli) but it’s not easy to do seamlessly.
I’m hoping to automate Ghost blog migration but I’m not done yet [1]. Hopefully I’ll find time in August to finish it up, God willing.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
WordPress.org doesn't offer hosting, and once you install it on a $5/mo VPS you're way past $29/yr.
If you already have a server, it's essentially free.
lol, what does this even mean as an argument? The software is free yes but he's not selling software he's selling SaaS.
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#20How is it the best? The biggest thing is, is this a sustainable price? And what if I want to move elsewhere? WordPress is still pretty popular because you can pack up and take your WordPress content and data anywhere (either built-in export/import; or something like All in One Migration)
You can do the same with Ghost—pack up and take your Ghost content and data to any host (using the ghost-cli) but it’s not easy to do seamlessly. I’m hoping to automate Ghost blog migration but I’m not done yet [1]. Hopefully I’ll find time in August to finish it up, God willing. 1: https://github.com/ayewo/ghost.sh/
Ah fantastic to hear about Ghost picking up these features! Having options is always good :)