John BullAnyone got any UK/EU Ghost CMS hosting recommendations?
Don't want to be sticking stuff in the US.
To be clear: i have hosting for other services, just interested in companies that specifically cater to Ghost setups
Sam at BLAG@garius Maybe @johnonolan knows a place?
Mine is hosted by Ghost, but I don't know what that means geographically.
John O'Nolan
Simon Rolfmore@garius https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/ghost - Digital Ocean have this one-click thing which is the closest I’ve found to “managed” (but clearly isn’t). They have regions in the UK and EU but are an American company.
I couldn’t find anything workable for me (Ghost Pro is too expensive and I wanted 3+ sites), so I’ve ended up with caddy+ghost+mysql with docker compose on a VPS at Mythic Beasts, and it’s, eh… not too annoying as a setup.
The documentation to get working sucks, and I keep meaning to write it all up.
@cloudthethings yeah, the pricing is a problem on ghost.org right now.
Currently leaning towards setting up a VPS with hostinger and doing it on that.
@cloudthethings what are you running in terms of vCPUs and RAM?
@garius 2 cores + 4 GB RAM, to host 3 ghost sites (shared caddy, 1 MySQL instance with 3 separate DBs), some static content, and plenty of headroom as I want to add GoToSocial and potentially a Bluesky PDS.
You could easily get away with 2 GB RAM from what I’ve seen, this is barely hitting 1.5 so far.
Ghost seems to be quite I/O sensitive so it’s worth making sure your server is backed by reasonable SSD storage.
@garius oh and don’t forget, if you’re actually using the newsletter features (I’m not), you need to budget for a Mailgun account as that’s the only bulk mailer they support right now.
I’m just sending transactional stuff to myself through the inbuilt node-mailer code.
Brian Lawson
Aileen@garius For a year now, a friend and I have been trying to set up a self-hosted instance of Ghost on a virtual server, but we kept getting stuck at Ghost's dependency on Mailgun, which we neither need nor want, because we already have Listmonk.
Looking for advice on the Ghost Forum, though, I learned that there is a small company in Austria that hosts Ghost:
https://www.magicpages.co
Jonathan B ✈️🪄👨🏻💻
Jonathan W@garius @Jeremiah has been maintaining an EU-specific alternatives to US providers for a while, though I didn’t spot Ghost hosters specifically on my quick skim just now (but there are certainly VPS alternatives there) https://www.eucloud.tech/?ref=JeremiahLee
Jeremiah Lee
james@garius If you are happy to self-host things on a VPS and set up the necessary mailgun account for the email setup, running https://cloudron.io and then using it to install Ghost was pretty simple. Takes care of package updates etc automatically. Cloudron is free if you only want to run up to 2 apps on it and it handles all the reverse proxy and dns updates for you. Fairly low maintenance. I have 3 ghost instances running on it and no issues so far.
Julia Clement@garius I don't want to worry you, but according to Wikipedia Mailgun is owned by Rackspace, a US company.
If it is correct that you need to use Mailgun to use Ghost this means that you won't be able to be 100% out of the USA.
If it is correct that you need to use Mailgun to use Ghost this means that you won't be able to be 100% out of the USA.
@juliaclement nah, it's fine. Mailgun have designated EU servers. So that covers me on GDPR.