Website · Blog · Newsletter & e-mail marketing
Ghost
Publishing platform for blogs and newsletters.
open source self-hostable Ghost Foundation · SGPosts, members and paid newsletters in one open-source app run by a non-profit; self-host or Ghost(Pro).
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
| Hosted outside Europe | servers outside Europe | ≈ €9/mo per site | red — Hosted outside Europe: your data sits under non-European jurisdiction. |
Facts
| Company / project | Ghost Foundation (SG) |
|---|---|
| Licence | MIT |
| Self-hosting footprint | 512 MB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 5 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Substack, Medium, WordPress |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 55,156 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Nodejs |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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