Where your blog runs today, and which regions are still being brought online.
Serving from India today, with more regions being brought online.
Sites are currently built in India. We'll list a region as available once there's a host in it — we'd rather say "coming soon" than put your blog somewhere you didn't choose.
Less than it used to, and less than most hosts imply. Two things decide how fast a page feels: how long the server takes to build it, and how far the response has to travel.
We attack the first directly. Ghost renders every page in a single Node process backed by MySQL, so an uncached page costs real work — we measured 63 ms to first byte. Putting an nginx page cache in front of it took that to 0.4 ms on a cache hit. That saving applies to every reader, everywhere, and it is far larger than the distance penalty for most visitors.
Distance is the second part, and it is the honest limit of a single region: a reader on the other side of the world still pays the round-trip. If your audience is concentrated somewhere we do not yet host, that is a real reason to wait for a region near them — or to put a CDN in front, which is what our Cloudflare add-on does.
A region selector that quietly places every site in the same datacentre is worse than no selector at all, because you cannot tell it happened — you just get latency you did not choose. Regions marked "coming soon" here are not a marketing tease; they are places we do not yet have a host, and the panel will not offer them until we do.
Your container, its database and its backups all sit on the host serving your site. Certificates are issued by Let's Encrypt, which means your domain names appear in public Certificate Transparency logs — true of every host that issues certificates, and worth knowing if a subdomain name is itself sensitive. Our privacy policy sets out the rest.
Your blog, your domain, your database — running in about a minute.