Practical notes on running Ghost — written from actually operating it, not from the docs.
Start a Ghost blog from scratch — pick a domain, choose hosting, install Ghost, set up a theme and publish your first post. Covers both the managed route and self-hosting, with the decisions that matter first.
Read the guideWhat Ghost hosting really costs — managed plans, self-hosted VPS, and the add-on costs most comparisons leave out. Includes a full first-year total for both routes and how to pick the cheaper one for your situation.
Read the guideAn honest Ghost vs WordPress comparison for people who want to publish writing — speed, maintenance burden, plugins, SEO, memberships and cost. Includes when WordPress is still the right answer.
Read the guideA step-by-step migration plan for moving Ghost between hosts with no visible downtime — export, rehearse, lower TTL, sync, cut over, and verify. Includes the ordering mistakes that cause the outage people expect.
Read the guideA side-by-side comparison of managed Ghost hosting and self-hosting on your own VPS — real costs, the work each one actually involves, and which one is genuinely the right call for you.
Read the guideGhost's real system requirements — supported Node versions, why MySQL 8 is the only supported database, how much memory an install needs, and the mistakes that make a self-hosted Ghost fall over.
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