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Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by Kihashi »

wlesieutre wrote: post #12

Looks great, the payments integration is a great idea. I've looked at Ghost on and off while considering setting up my personal site, and pricing is the reason I avoided it. I think they started at $5/month for "Ghost Pro" and are now up to $36 for Pro Basic or $99 for Pro Standard (a bit less purchased in bulk). At a minimum, it's now $348/year. Having paid subscriptions built-in makes that easier to swallow. I don'…

I self host on a $5/month VPS and it works fine. Granted, I don't really have much traffic, but it sounds like you don't either.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by bytematic »

nickjj wrote: post #20
83457 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization "A nonprofit organization, also known as a non-business entity,[1] not-for-profit organization,[2] or nonprofit institution,[3] is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view. In economic terms, it is an organization that uses its surplus of the revenues to further achieve its ultimate objective, rather than distributi…

That's still very confusing. Surplus sounds like anything beyond hosting costs to run the service, but the hosting costs is likely no where near 5 million dollars so a majority of it is surplus. Does that mean no one gets a salary or is a salary part of the costs to run the business instead of being a "member"? If salaries are included who dictates what the income tax exempt salary is? I'm not trolling either. What y…

Look at the wikipedia salaries for example: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by velcrovan »

akerl_ wrote: post #42
velcrovan wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some Business 101 for you: Salaries are separate from profits. Salaries are a cost to the business just like rent and hosting costs. Profits come after all the costs. (Salaries are also taxed as personal income just like at any other business.) The $5m over 6 years is $833k in revenue per year. Not a lot, and salaries/benefits probably take up the biggest part of that, leaving very little profit. Which is the way it…

I feel like this comment would be totally complete without the first 5 words, which serve to make it condescending. Part of the goal of this community is for its participants to learn things they don’t know; the tone implied by the intro to your comment makes it seem offensive that somebody wouldn’t realize US non-profit status still allows for salaries and benefits for their staff. https://xkcd.com/1053/

Point taken.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#55

Post by 2color »

johnonolan wrote: post #3

Hi HN, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the comments about 3.0 — we spent a lot of late nights on this, and it's a pretty big upgrade for Ghost as a platform (which is now 6 years old). I know the audience here is generally more interested in technical details and reasons for why this took longer than 1 weekend to build. So I'll share a few more relevant details absent from the marketing copy: - The new membership sy…

Thanks for building a successful business around an open-source product, this is praise worthy.

Is it possible to generate a static site with Ghost 3.0? or does one have to use gatsby with a headless Ghost 3.0 instance?

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by [deleted] »

bovermyer wrote: post #27
nickjj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's still very confusing. Surplus sounds like anything beyond hosting costs to run the service, but the hosting costs is likely no where near 5 million dollars so a majority of it is surplus. Does that mean no one gets a salary or is a salary part of the costs to run the business instead of being a "member"? If salaries are included who dictates what the income tax exempt salary is? I'm not trolling either. What y…

Salaries at a nonprofit can be tiny or enormous, depending on how the organization operates. My guess is that Ghost pays competitive salaries to its rank and file, a generous salary to its CEO, and uses the rest of the money to either fund exploratory work, educate its target industry, and/or lobby politicians. That's how most nonprofits appear to work.

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Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by vivin »

erisds wrote: post #43
vivin wrote: post #39

Has the JSON file structure changed in v3? I am trying to migrate from WordPress to Ghost and I was going to use v2, but now that v3 is out, I would like to migrate to v3. ( https://ghost.org/docs/api/v2/migration/ )

It hasn't changed (see https://ghost.org/docs/api/v3/migration/ ) But also, https://wordpress.org/plugins/ghost/ has been overhauled to export from WP into a format you can import straight into Ghost 3.0.

That is awesome -- I was looking to roll my own. This will make it much easier.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by nickjj »

superturkey650 wrote: post #38
nickjj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's still very confusing. Surplus sounds like anything beyond hosting costs to run the service, but the hosting costs is likely no where near 5 million dollars so a majority of it is surplus. Does that mean no one gets a salary or is a salary part of the costs to run the business instead of being a "member"? If salaries are included who dictates what the income tax exempt salary is? I'm not trolling either. What y…

You can still receive a salary, and as far as I know there are no limits on what you can pay yourself. However, you must have a predefined salary and you are audited regularly to ensure there isn't fraud. However, outside of the overhead (salaries, office, servers, etc) any further profits have to be reinvested into the business. This means that if they get 5 million dollars and only spend 4 million, no one gets to t…

> This means that if they get 5 million dollars and only spend 4 million, no one gets to take home the extra million. It has to go back into the business.

I wonder where the line is drawn on that.

For example, can the CEO buy a house to live in and then claim it's investing in the business because that's where he works remotely once in a while?

Also on the salary itself, do you pay regular income tax on that (separate from the company, but as an individual receiving a salary)?

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by wlesieutre »

Kihashi wrote: post #51
wlesieutre wrote: post #12

Looks great, the payments integration is a great idea. I've looked at Ghost on and off while considering setting up my personal site, and pricing is the reason I avoided it. I think they started at $5/month for "Ghost Pro" and are now up to $36 for Pro Basic or $99 for Pro Standard (a bit less purchased in bulk). At a minimum, it's now $348/year. Having paid subscriptions built-in makes that easier to swallow. I don'…

I self host on a $5/month VPS and it works fine. Granted, I don't really have much traffic, but it sounds like you don't either.

Not much traffic, no. But "spend as little time administrating it as possible" was a goal that had me looking into managed options.

Hugo + Netlify is working well, some up-front work in the setup since I didn't want to use a premade Hugo theme, but when I update anything it just takes two commands to rebuild and upload:

    hugo
    netlify deploy --prod
I'll eventually simplify that further since Netlify can run hugo builds automatically from changes to a git branch.

Beyond that, it's just publish and forget. And the page speed is great (Google scores it at 99) since Netlify is serving it off of a CDN.

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