[sudhirj]

I was trying to make it multi tenant, move it a serverless database like DynamoDB, and rewrite the server in Go.

I’m trying to make a Ghost hosting service that’s free / $5 a month for personal use. I’ve figured out a way to make the economics work with the existing 500MB disk + 1GB RAM requirements, but it would have been a lot easier with Go and Dynamo.

Thanks a ton to you and the team for the work you’re doing. I think you’re making a fantastic system, and want to make it available to more people as a personal blogging platform. I just wish it could run multi tenant or with lower memory needs.

I don’t suppose making it easier for others to compete with the official Ghost revenue model is a priority, so I doubt this is anything you’ll want to take up. But I’m happy to share revenues on this - I just think Ghost should be a lot more accessible to individuals around the world.

[johnonolan]

Not clear how those changes would make it more accessible or what problem you're actually trying to solve? There are lots of things we're working on improving but I promise you changing the programming language of any of those components wouldn't make any difference to the end experience of the software.

A lot of blogging platforms (including Ghost) start out at $5/mo targeting personal use -- but the ones that survive never stay there. Probably some worthwhile takeaways from that :)

[sudhirj]

Yeah, the Go decision was more because of familiarity and some tooling I have available for Dynamo. The real problem I was tackling is zero marginal cost multi tenancy. Right now a new Ghost installation costs 500MB on a disk and 1GB in RAM, and I would like to to cost one row in an existing database instead.

And yeah, don’t think the $5 / month is sustainable for a company, but for a solo founder it might work. Of course, that might be a classic case of this time it’s different.