{"id":16,"date":"2025-11-03T20:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toleary.bitweb1.nwtc.edu\/wptd\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:41:23","slug":"cms-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toleary.bitweb1.nwtc.edu\/wptd\/wordpress\/cms\/cms-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ghost.org\">https:\/\/ghost.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghost was founded in April 2013 by former Deputy Head of the WordPress UI Group John O&#8217;Nolan, who recognized the vast potential WordPress offered as a CMS, but also noted that it had grown far beyond its description of a &#8220;blogging platform.&#8221; Nolan wanted to create a simpler platform with a more intuitive design, focusing on publishing digital content without complicated tools and plugins. He set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/johnonolan\/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform\/\">Kickstarter <\/a>campaign to help fund its development, and within 11 hours hit his first funding goal. The support for Ghost CMS led to Nolan&#8217;s starting of the Ghost Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to keeping Ghost open-source and community-powered while guiding its growth as a CMS platform. The first public release of Ghost occurred on October 14, 2013, and over time added more features and functionality to improve its performance and intuitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If self-hosting a site, Ghost recommends having Ubuntu 24, Node.js 22 LTS, MySQL 8.0, NGINX, Systemd, at least 1GB of server memory, and a non-root user for running commands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hosted\/Self-Hosted<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghost can be self-hosted on a server, but also offers cloud hosting via Ghost(Pro), with 4 tiers of plans: starter, publisher, business, and custom. Ghost(Pro) includes site management tools, analytics,  automatic install, setup, updates, server maintenance, and other features that may need to be managed by a team if self-hosting. Cloud hosting through other sites like Digital Ocean and Linode is also available for Ghost sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cost<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghost(Pro) plans can be billed monthly or annually with significant monthly savings. The starter plan costs $18\/month or $15\/month billed annually ($216 or $180 per year, respectively); the publisher plan costs $35\/month or $29\/month annually ($420 or $348); the business plan costs $239\/month or $199\/month annually ($2,868 or $2,388); and the custom plan could costs many hundreds per month more depending on the site&#8217;s needs, user base, and scale. Self-hosting costs include <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">User Base<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to W3Techs, Ghost is used by 0.1% of all websites with a known CMS, representing over 100,000 websites using Ghost CMS from about 22,000 active Ghost customers, with an additional 5,000 self-hosted Ghost users. 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