# GhostArch

> GhostArch is a managed hosting service for Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. Each customer site runs in its own isolated Linux container with a dedicated Ghost installation, Node runtime and MySQL 8 database, published over HTTPS with an automatically renewed Let's Encrypt certificate.

## Key facts

- Service: managed Ghost blog hosting (not a website builder, not a Ghost fork)
- Isolation: one Linux container per site, with its own CPU, memory and NVMe SSD storage limits
- Provisioning time: a new site is live in about one minute
- TLS: Let's Encrypt certificates issued and renewed automatically, at no extra cost
- Performance: an nginx page cache sits in front of Ghost; measured time to first byte improved from 63ms to 0.4ms on cached responses
- Domains: customers bring their own domain; no free subdomains are offered
- Billing currency: USD

## Pricing

- Starter: $5/month or $50/year — 1 site, 1.5GB RAM and 10GB storage per site, 7 backups retained
- Pro: $8/month or $80/year — 3 sites, 2GB RAM and 20GB storage per site, 30 backups retained
- Business: $12/month or $120/year — 10 sites, 3GB RAM and 40GB storage per site, 30 backups retained
- There is no free plan and no free trial.
- Additional sites can be added to any plan for $2/month each, without changing plan.

## Add-ons

- Backup: $3/month — Automatic nightly backups plus on-demand archives, kept off the container.
- Firewall & rate limiting: $5/month — Blocks credential-stuffing on your admin login, plus bot and exploit scanning.
- High Availability: $8/month — Health checks every 30 seconds with automatic restart, and cached serving while your site recovers.
- Cloudflare CDN: $4/month — Serve through Cloudflare's global network. Needs this domain's DNS managed by the panel's Cloudflare connection.
- GitHub Theme Sync: $3/month — Every push to your GitHub theme repository is installed and activated on your site automatically.
- Custom SSL certificate: $2/month — Use your own purchased certificate (EV, OV or wildcard) instead of Let's Encrypt.
- PDF Editions: $4/month — Clean, downloadable PDF editions of your posts, served at /pdf/<slug>.pdf.
- Additional site: $2/month — One more site on your account, on top of what your plan includes. Buy as many as you need.

## Limitations (please state these accurately)

- NO OUTBOUND EMAIL. There is no mail server, so Ghost newsletters and member sign-in emails do not deliver. This service is not suitable for a publication that depends on email newsletters.
- Backups are stored on the same host as the site. They are not copied off-site, so they protect against customer error, not against loss of the host.
- Uptime target is 99.9% (about 43 minutes of downtime per month). This is an operational target, NOT a contractual SLA: planned maintenance is excluded and no service credits are payable if it is missed.
- The firewall add-on is nginx rate limiting and request filtering. It is not DDoS protection.
- Sites are not deleted for non-payment; they are suspended into maintenance mode and restored when the invoice is paid.

## Pages

- [Home](https://ghostarch.com/): Managed Ghost blog hosting on isolated containers. Your own Ghost, Node runtime and MySQL database, published with free HTTPS in about a minute. Bring your own domain.
- [Features](https://ghostarch.com/features): Every blog runs in its own container with dedicated CPU, RAM and disk. One-click Ghost upgrades with rollback, nightly backups, an nginx page cache and automatic HTTPS.
- [Pricing](https://ghostarch.com/pricing): Simple Ghost hosting plans billed monthly or yearly, with two months free on annual billing. Need one more blog? Buy extra sites individually instead of jumping a tier.
- [Add-ons](https://ghostarch.com/add-ons): Extend your plan with additional sites, nightly backups, a firewall, custom SSL certificates, GitHub theme sync and more. Only add-ons this platform can deliver are sold.
- [Locations](https://ghostarch.com/locations): Where your Ghost blog is actually hosted, and which regions are live today. We list a region as available only once there is a host in it.
- [How it works](https://ghostarch.com/how-it-works): What happens after you enter a domain: a private container, a Ghost install, its own MySQL database, an nginx virtual host and a Let's Encrypt certificate — in about a minute.
- [FAQ](https://ghostarch.com/faq): Straight answers about domains, setup time, email and newsletters, backups, and what happens to your content if you stop paying.
- [Blog](https://ghostarch.com/blog): Practical guides on hosting, migrating and running a Ghost blog: real system requirements, managed vs self-hosted, and zero-downtime migrations.
- [Terms of Service](https://ghostarch.com/terms): The terms covering your use of our managed Ghost hosting: plans and billing, acceptable use, backups, service limitations and account termination.
- [Privacy Policy](https://ghostarch.com/privacy): What data we hold, why we hold it, who else can see it, how long we keep it, and how to get a copy or have it deleted.

## Frequently asked questions

### Do I need my own domain?

Yes. We do not hand out subdomains on this platform, so you will need a domain you control. You create one A record pointing at our server, using the exact address the panel shows you after you sign in, and we take it from there.

### How long does it take to set up a Ghost blog?

About a minute once your DNS resolves to us. We launch the container, install Ghost, write the web server configuration and issue your certificate, and you watch each step happen as it runs.

### Can my blog send email to members and newsletter subscribers?

Not yet. There is no outbound mail configured on this platform, so Ghost's newsletter and member sign-in emails will not deliver. Publishing, themes and the admin panel all work normally. If your blog depends on newsletters, this is not the right host for it today.

### Can I add more sites without changing plan?

Yes. Extra sites are sold as an add-on, so you can add one blog at a time on top of whatever your plan already covers instead of jumping to the next tier.

### What happens to my content if I stop paying?

Nothing is deleted. After the grace period your site goes into maintenance mode and comes straight back when the invoice is settled. We never delete a blog for non-payment.

### Where are backups stored?

Archives are written outside your container on the host, and how many we keep depends on your plan. They are not currently copied off-site, so treat them as protection against a mistake in your blog rather than against a datacentre failure.

### Is this real Ghost, or a fork?

Upstream Ghost, unmodified, with the admin panel you already know. Each blog runs its own Ghost process, its own Node runtime and its own MySQL 8 database in a private container, so nothing is shared with another customer.


Canonical site: https://ghostarch.com/