I also documented some of the annoying quirks I ran into while self-hosting Ghost. Hopefully, this saves someone else the hassle of tracking down a bunch of documentation for hours.

https://blog.hydroponictrash.solar/moving-from-substack-to-ghost/

@nieuemma Honestly, it depends on your level of technical expertise. Though based on your bio I bet you already do haha.

There is the option to self host ghost on whatever infrastructure you want. Or pay Ghost to host and manage it.

Self-hosting is cheaper, though I ran into issues that took a while to troubleshoot.
But paying Ghost to manage everything is soooo expensive compared to self-hosting.

There are limited themes in Ghost, but the UI is nice, and you can make it look however you want with some HTML tweaks. I personally haven't gone down that route and just used a built-in template that looks like Substack. I haven't personally used Wordpress for a blog (just worked on business sites and pentest Wordpress sites pretty often) but, I've heard from others that the switch can be worth it.

@hydroponictrash I try to be technologically smart, but honestly there is so much I don't know. I just started learning how WordPress works about a week ago, and I never really did any HTML/CSS until about a week ago either.

I'm curious about web hosting, and many other things, but my brain is so bad sometimes I haven't been able to really sit down and learn much.

I can't code, although I'd like to. All I really know is bash. I know just enough that some people think I know everything.

At least I can troubleshoot a printer.

@nieuemma It might be good to wait, and maybe play around with getting a homelab working with Ghost just to learn more about web hosting!

Running it in DigitalOcean, they have a 1-click app that sets up pretty much everything (the databases, nginx to host stuff, etc) from there you can tweak some configs, if you know bash or Linux basics you can move around and make your way.