Hosting options for my Ghost blog?
July 17, 2016 7:56 PM Subscribe
Looking for simple hosting for my niche blog with low costs per month. Thanks.
Hello,
I used AWS (EC2) a few months ago but recently I encountered some errors so I'd like to move to a new host. Looking around there's a few recommendations for sites but they seem to have too many options. I'd like it to be compatible with Ghost since I'm the most familiar with it. Also I don't plan to use much storage as it'll be mostly text with a few visitors weekly. The cheapest plan I had found was approx $10/month but I feel like there could more places that I'm not aware of yet. Thanks.
Hello,
I used AWS (EC2) a few months ago but recently I encountered some errors so I'd like to move to a new host. Looking around there's a few recommendations for sites but they seem to have too many options. I'd like it to be compatible with Ghost since I'm the most familiar with it. Also I don't plan to use much storage as it'll be mostly text with a few visitors weekly. The cheapest plan I had found was approx $10/month but I feel like there could more places that I'm not aware of yet. Thanks.
Heroku can host a node app. If you don't mind your app "sleeping" (some requests to your site will be delayed while it "wakes up"), hosting can be free. Digital Ocean also has 5$/month servers. I've used both and they're solid and great.
Nearly Free Speech is good as well, although I have a feeling that deploying node code there will be more of a hassle as it's an older platform / that's not their main focus. I think that they're better suited for static site deployments, but I might be wrong.
posted by vert canard at 9:01 PM on July 17, 2016
Nearly Free Speech is good as well, although I have a feeling that deploying node code there will be more of a hassle as it's an older platform / that's not their main focus. I think that they're better suited for static site deployments, but I might be wrong.
posted by vert canard at 9:01 PM on July 17, 2016
If you don't mind adminning your own server, I'm currently running my web presence on a €2.99 (less than US$3.50) quad core ARM server, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD, from Scaleway, running Ubuntu. They also have a similarly priced Intel solution now. I went to it because my $10/month US based VM didn't have enough RAM to compile some stuff.
posted by straw at 9:01 PM on July 17, 2016
posted by straw at 9:01 PM on July 17, 2016
Seconding vert canard on Digital Ocean. They have a one-click deploy option for Ghost, so migrating may be as easy as backing up your blog and importing it to the new deployment. I don't think it keeps the theme though. With minimal research, you can usually find a $10 credit for new users.
I run a Ghost blog with similar traffic on one of their $5/month servers and have never run into capacity/speed issues. I previously used NearlyFreeSpeech, and it was cheaper, but there was a lot more manual work involved.
posted by enigmango at 3:20 PM on July 18, 2016
I run a Ghost blog with similar traffic on one of their $5/month servers and have never run into capacity/speed issues. I previously used NearlyFreeSpeech, and it was cheaper, but there was a lot more manual work involved.
posted by enigmango at 3:20 PM on July 18, 2016
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