If you want to use #Ghost and you want to support a European small business hosting service that hosts Ghost and has excellent support, Magic Pages has launched a new lifetime hosting plan. For $460 (EUR 390) you get a Ghost site hosted forever.
They’re an Austrian business using German servers (Hetzner).
They also have a monthly plan and an enterprise plan.
@skinnylatte I love lifetime models, but am skeptical of them. Plenty of apps (pocketcasts as an example) and "commidity" services (VPNs/etc) have advertised lifetime plans which then either switch to subscritptions of get sold/go bankrupt, which turns the lifetime into "a few years." This can make the "lifetime" not pencil out in your favor versus just buying an annual plan for a few years.
This may be an excellent and resilient hoster, but please be aware that this deal may be too good to be true.
EDIT : looks like the lifetime plan is limted to a certain number per month. This is likely partially a way to sell scarcity, but also seems like a responsible way to prevent overselling one offs and losing subscription revenue to keep the servers running long term. So overall, even with being a new vendor, their model appears substanable.
@liquidlamp if I get 4 years out of them, I’m happy. That’s what I’m paying them now at the grandfathered-in older price of $8/ month
It pays for itself at that price and they’ve been a reliable host
@skinnylatte Fully reasonable, honestly. It looks like they have a sane structure for the deal that will prevent them from overleveraging themselves.
If youre happy with them and need a ghost instance long term, I would say go for it.
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