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Everything a Ghost Blog Needs, Actually Running

Isolated containers, one-click upgrades with rollback, nightly backups and a page cache in front of Ghost.

Why Choose GhostArch for Ghost?

Three things we actually run on your behalf.

Managed & Isolated

  • Its own container, not a shared folder
  • One-click Ghost upgrades, with rollback
  • Nightly backups kept off the container
  • 99.9% uptime target

Fast Where It Counts

  • nginx page cache in front of Ghost
  • Measured 63 ms → 0.4 ms time to first byte
  • NVMe SSD storage, dedicated CPU and RAM

Real Ghost, Not a Fork

  • Upstream Ghost with the admin panel you know
  • Custom themes, synced from your GitHub repo
  • Free HTTPS, renewed automatically

What Every Blog Actually Runs

No mystery layer. This is the whole stack behind your site.

Every Feature, Explained

What each one actually is, including where it stops. We would rather you knew before buying than found out after.

Security First

  • True container isolation. Every blog runs in its own Linux container with its own filesystem, process table and resource limits. A problem in one site cannot reach another.
  • Free SSL, renewed automatically. A Let's Encrypt certificate is issued as soon as your domain resolves and renewed on a timer. Nothing to buy and nothing to remember.
  • Firewall and rate limiting. An optional add-on that blocks credential-stuffing against your admin login, plus bot and exploit scanning. It is nginx-level filtering, not DDoS protection.
  • The panel runs unprivileged. The web application has no root capability of its own. Container and certificate operations go through a separate agent over a restricted socket.
  • Secrets encrypted at rest. Database passwords and any API tokens you connect are encrypted before storage, never held in plain text.

Writer-Focused Tools

  • The real Ghost editor. Upstream Ghost, unmodified. The editor, the cards, the keyboard shortcuts — everything you already know, because it is the actual thing.
  • Custom themes. Upload your own theme, or connect a GitHub repository with the theme-sync add-on so every push installs and activates automatically.
  • Memberships and subscriptions. Ghost's native member management is fully available. Note that this platform has no outbound email, so newsletters and member sign-in emails do not deliver.
  • SEO that works by default. Clean markup, sensible URLs, automatic sitemaps and structured data — with no plugin to install or configure.
  • Responsive images. Ghost generates multiple image sizes and serves the right one, so a large photo does not cost a mobile reader their data allowance.

Performance Optimization

  • nginx page cache. Ghost renders every page in one Node process. Putting a cache in front took measured time to first byte from 63 ms to 0.4 ms on a cache hit.
  • Dedicated CPU and memory. Your plan’s CPU, RAM and disk are set on your container, not shared out of a common pool. No noisy neighbour.
  • NVMe SSD storage. Every site is stored on NVMe solid-state storage. Your plan sets how much of it your site gets.
  • Compression already on. Ghost compresses its own responses with Brotli, so a typical page leaves the server at roughly a quarter of its raw size.
  • Cache that respects logins. Member and admin sessions bypass the cache entirely, so nobody is ever served a page rendered for somebody else.

Power for Creators and Agencies

Everything below is available today, on the plans as sold.

Full REST API access

The complete Ghost Content and Admin API, because this is real Ghost. Build a headless front end, script your publishing, or integrate anything you like.

GitHub theme sync

Connect a repository and every push is installed and activated on your site automatically. Available as an add-on on any plan.

Team roles

Ghost's built-in roles — contributor, author, editor and administrator — so a team can work on one publication without sharing a login.

Several sites, one account

Run up to ten blogs on a single plan, each fully isolated — and add more individually rather than jumping a tier when you need one extra.

Built on Isolated Architecture

How your site is actually run — and, at the end, what we deliberately do not promise.

One container per blog

Not a folder on a shared server. Your Ghost process, your database and your files are separated from every other customer at the kernel level, with limits that stop one busy site starving another.

Backups kept off your container

Archives are written outside your container so a broken site does not take its own backups with it, and retention depends on your plan. They are stored on the same host, so treat them as protection against a mistake rather than against hardware loss.

Upgrades with a rollback path

A backup is taken before a Ghost upgrade, the site is verified afterwards, and the code rolls back if it does not come up. Database migrations are one-way, so the pre-upgrade archive is the real safety net.

Our availability target, and what it is not

We target 99.9% uptime, which allows for roughly 43 minutes of unavailability in a month. That is a target we run the platform against, not a contractual SLA with service credits attached — planned maintenance is excluded, and we would rather state the distinction than let you assume compensation that is not on offer.

Two other limits worth knowing: backups are not off-site yet, so treat them as protection against a mistake rather than against hardware loss, and the firewall add-on is request filtering rather than DDoS protection. All of this is written the same way in our terms.

Compare Plans Side by Side

Monthly prices. Every plan includes everything in the table below.

Comparison of GhostArch Ghost hosting plans by price, sites, memory, CPU, storage and backup retention.
Feature Starter Pro Business
Monthly price $5$8$12
Yearly price $50$80$120
Sites included 1310
RAM per site 1.5 GB2 GB3 GB
vCPU per site 224
NVMe SSD storage per site 10 GB20 GB40 GB
Backups retained 73030
Isolated container
Own MySQL 8 database
Free HTTPS certificate
nginx page cache
One-click Ghost upgrades
Custom domain
Traffic analytics
Extra sites purchasable
Outbound email / newsletters

Outbound email is unavailable on every plan — there is no mail server on this platform, so Ghost newsletters and member sign-in emails do not deliver. We would rather show that as a row than leave you to discover it.

Ready to start writing?

Your blog, your domain, your database — running in about a minute.