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Any chance of a cheaper / more minimal plan for a small personal site or blog? I suppose at that point, it's better for you for us to run it on our own hosting, though...?
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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?
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.
https://www.fastcomet.com/ghost-hosting
Yay open source!
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Depends on your skills and preferences. I would choose Ghost since I am a JavaScript developer and would be more comfortable with a node.js solution. I'm actually so happy I was reminded about Ghost by this post, I might try to set it up myself tonight. Lacking PHP experience, I've never felt that comfortable in WordPress, but I can't deny that It Just Works . Easy to install and there are millions of users for easy…
That's basically what I'm thinking. Ghost is more inline with some skills I'd like to round out but it's undeniable that WordPress is the standard and there are so many plugins and extensions for it.
If you want a technical blog, Ghost also "just works" and is far, far better, cleaner, more beautiful out of the box imo. I use their Pro version for our company's blog (https://articles.hsreplay.net/) and it's just unbelievably good. I'm so glad to have found it and I'm a huge, huge fan of not just their product but also how they run their organization.
I help run a small publication with some friends and we've been having difficulties with Medium and think it's time to move to a new platform.
One problem we haven't figured out a solution to yet is importing our Medium articles into Ghost.
My current plan is to export the Medium articles, parse them, then insert them directly into the Ghost DB. Is this is a viable solution?
I guess I have two questions: - Is Medium import going to be a feature offered any time soon? - How does the SEO configuration/setting work? Is it set up on article access? on article publish? on article creation? Would inserting articles directly into the DB break this process?
Thanks!
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Hey John -- I recall seeing on your Mastodon account recently that you were interested in supporting ActivityPub for Ghost blogs. Any news on that front?
Yeah! Very interested - we have a highly voted topic for it over on the forum with some ideas, too. It's not a primary focus of the core team right now, but it's the sort of thing we'd be very interested in open source contributions for. One of the main motivations for people using Medium is the network effect. I think it would be really cool if that could be recreated in a platform-agnostic, decentralised way :)
> Multi-Language Sites > You can now configure your site to support multi-lingual content served across unique URLs with SEO-friendly, semantic templates. Now you can publish in English, German, Spanish or just about anything! About damn fucking time, pardon my language. Was a real deal breaker for some projects of mine.
Agreed
I wonder if the 1.x -> 2.0 upgrade will be a simple ghost-cli command, or whether it will entail a complete reinstall on our Digital Ocean droplet?
The cli tool is very rigid. For some reason you cannot simply run ghost as the user ghost but you need some other user with sudo privileges to create the ghost user during the installation process. And if there's any problem at any point, it just breaks.
I will try the npm path[1] but it looks pretty arduous as well.
Is this a business decision to turn as many people as possible to the hosted version? Or is this just the state of node and modern web apps?
[1] https://docs.ghost.org/docs/using-ghost-as-an-npm-module
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I know this isn't one of those two options, but I'd recommend a static site generator (e.g., Lektor, Hugo, Nikola, Pelican, Octopress). I find myself wasting less time twiddling and configuring them and instead focusing on writing content (in Markdown or ReStructured Text, no less). Additionally, I can then throw the content up on GitHub pages or AWS S3 and cut down on hosting costs.
I loved Octopress and wanted to use that. It seems like development stopped around 2016. Do know if someone forked it and there's a more updated version out there?
It looks like a lot of Octopress users have migrated to vanilla Jekyll for their needs.