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
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.