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[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (16 children)
[–] elena@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for bringing this up! This is Elena, the author of the blog https://blog.elenarossini.com/.

My Ghost blog is being hosted by Magic Pages... when I signed up last year they had a fully European stack (Bunny CDN) - something that is incredibly important to me.

Recently they moved from BunnyCDN to Cloudflare to keep costs down (prices had skyrocketed). I have no saying in this, but I understand Jannis and his team.

Magic Pages takes care of all the software updates and offers amazing support (plus it would cost me 2x to self-host it... I made the calculations).

And for the record, my personal website - which I self-host - uses BunnyCDN: elenarossini.com

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for your reply. But if you can self-host your personal website, why don't you self-host Ghost?

[–] elena@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because Ghost now requires Docker and it’s way beyond my scope of expertise (I used to self-host a previous version with Ghost CLI - it will be sunset in the next version).

Ghost is also expensive to self-host, especially the newsletter part. Magic Pages does all the maintenance and updates for me for the price of what I used to pay just for the newsletter integration… and I don’t have to worry about a thing 🥲

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you have your own server, I can write you a bash script for installing Ghost and updating it when you run the script.

What do you say?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

and what will handle the breaking changes? and the release verification? what will update the database and the operating system, especially across major versions?

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