What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M

Re:What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M by iends on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:14PM (#17083552)

I would love to switch to hosted ghost, but the pricing makes very little sense for a personal blog. An article will make the front page of hn or some larger subreddits and I'll get 30k views in just a few hours. I'd have to pay close to $200/mo to get the same number of page views I can get with a $10/VPS that I ssh into maybe once every 6 months to patch.

The pricing levels simply do not offer enough page views.

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Re:What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M by lookingsideways on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:30PM (#17083727)

From the "unusually fair billing policy" section on the pricing page:

> Our plans are limited by how many readers you have, and how often they visit your publication. We only enforce these limits on a 3 month rolling average, so we'll never make you upgrade plans if you happen to have one big traffic spike or particularly successful month.

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Re:What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M by freeman478 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:24PM (#17083668)

I was thinking like you but they say they compute usage on a 3 month rolling average basis. So an infrequent hit should not be an issue.

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Re:What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M by iends on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:21PM (#17085006)

It’s not really infrequent though. It’s like once a month.

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Re:What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M by e12e on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:48PM (#17085825)

You average around [ed:2M] views a month?

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