RE: https://kolektiva.social/@hydroponictrash/116274499535606690
I finally moved from Substack over to Ghost! The new blog is at: https://blog.hydroponictrash.solar/
This has been a long time coming, and I appreciate people telling me over the years that I should leave Substack. It's finally happened!
I went through ALL of my posts and fixed spelling/grammar issues, updated all of the links, and cleaned things up in general.
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/
Getting Ghost up and running was pretty easy, minus a couple problems that made me want to rip my hair out. This is mostly if you want to spin up Ghost on DigitalOcean using their 1-Click app in the DO marketplace, or if you're having problems yourself with this combo.
@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.
@hydroponictrash I've been around computers for as long as I can remember. I used my dads Windows 7 computer probably 17 years ago. I began using Linux probably 13 years ago with Ubuntu and really got into Arch maybe 3 years ago.
I love computers and I love Linux especially. I've just never done anything website related.
I've got a Forgejo running, and I am debating getting a domain to host my Navidrome server, but my friend actually does the work of getting it out to the world wide web.
Once it leaves my computer I'm much less knowledgeable.
I hope to learn more soon and we shall see if I decide to use Ghost.
Thank you, and sorry for sharing so much but I enjoy talking to nice internet people.
@ddlyh @ophiocephalic Try subscribing again, it might have been related to my email problems. Though, now that I think about it, that shouldn't matter? Hmmm.
It might be a thing with topspicy.social and settings on that server? Only thing I can think of outside of that. I
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