Re:Ghost 3.0
by mkr-hn on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:20PM
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I'd rather pay them to do it. The last time I self-hosted, it was WordPress, and the temptation to tinker was too great and distracted from the actual goal of having a blog.
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Re:Ghost 3.0
by WhiteOwlLion on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @03:23PM
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Ghost used to be available on Softaculous but the requirements changed: https://www.softaculous.com/news/scripts/ghost-support-to-be...
That's likely one of the biggest reasons you can't get a shared host to run this.
WordPress is still installable via Softaculous.
Then why not Svbtle or Write.as? You have lots of affordable or even free choices.
The subscription system, as I mentioned upthread. Making a blog is easy. Making a blog with pay gated access to posts and downloads is not. The closest equivalent is Patreon + WordPress with the Patreon plugin. I already mentioned the issue with self-hosted WordPress. Managed solutions cost more than Ghost and provide less.
Sounds like a good business opportunity if someone's looking for it.
call it gHosting
Sounds like an interesting idea... selling software under the MIT license which the software holder is maintaining...
Looks like I have a weekend project now!
This complaint has never made sense to me; you're selling software/hardware management, not the software itself.
And this is precisely the pain point of the gp... This isn't just reasonable, it's utterly sensible.
Yep. I don't mind Ghost or Automattic charging so much for managed hosting. That also pays for development. I don't want to assume other managed hosts charging more for WordPress without doing anything more is just greed, but it has the look.
That's why I want Ghost to offer a lower tier. That way I could get started at a price I can afford where I'm at, support the development of Ghost, and have an easy upgrade path if I need it. It's the curve, not the price, that I don't like.