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elena@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThank you for bringing this up! This is Elena, the author of the blog blog.elenarossini.com.
My Ghost blog is being hosted by Magic Pages… when I signed up last year they had a fully European stack (Bunny CDN) - something that is incredibly important to me.
Recently they moved from BunnyCDN to Cloudflare to keep costs down (prices had skyrocketed). I have no saying in this, but I understand Jannis and his team.
Magic Pages takes care of all the software updates and offers amazing support (plus it would cost me 2x to self-host it… I made the calculations).
And for the record, my personal website - which I self-host - uses BunnyCDN: elenarossini.com
airikr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Thank you for your reply. But if you can self-host your personal website, why don’t you self-host Ghost?
elena@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because Ghost now requires Docker and it’s way beyond my scope of expertise (I used to self-host a previous version with Ghost CLI - it will be sunset in the next version).
Ghost is also expensive to self-host, especially the newsletter part. Magic Pages does all the maintenance and updates for me for the price of what I used to pay just for the newsletter integration… and I don’t have to worry about a thing 🥲
airikr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If you have your own server, I can write you a bash script for installing Ghost and updating it when you run the script.
What do you say?
elena@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I appreciate the kind offer @airikr@lemmy.ml but no thank you.
I self-hosted Ghost for almost a year via Ghost CLI and it was (1) expensive (2) stressful - especially dealing with potential DDOS attacks and with the newsletter company Mailgun who handles the newsletter part (and would throw me all kinds of random error messages).
Self-hosting Ghost means spending TWICE as much and investing extra hours every month in maintenance.
With Magic Pages I save money and Jannis and his team take care of all the maintenance and updates and respond immediately if I run into any issues.
Yes I don’t like Cloudflare but I wouldn’t go to these lengths just to avoid it.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
and what will handle the breaking changes? and the release verification?