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by ohelabs 1263 days ago
Check out https://ghost.org/pricing/ it’s exactly what you are asking for.
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ohadron 1263 days ago
That is extremely expensive if all you need is a place to host your thoughts available to a wide audience.

($15/mo basic tier, and if I drag the slider to 20k 'members' the 'creator' tier is at $149/mo billed annually).

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dspillett 1263 days ago
Ghost is self-hostable, and you should be able to get a VPS matching the system requirements for $5/mo unless you get properly popular so need more hosting umph.

Though Ghost would be overkill for a really simple blog, despite its staring point as intending to be just enough tech to host content well (a reaction to what WordPress has/had become).

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m3nu 1263 days ago
Ghost is run by a foundation with a hard limit on revenue. They don't need more users at this point.
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ohadron 1263 days ago
Fair enough.

But that probably means that they are currently not a good fit for someone looking to move their Twitter presence to a blog.

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m3nu 1263 days ago
They are still pushing FOSS adoption and publish bugfixes regularly. The aim just isn't to have many cheap hosting users directly.

Not speaking for the project here. Just what I understood from conversations with devs.

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m3nu 1263 days ago
Personally, I think the combination of blog, newsletter and optional monetization is a good fit for many.
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