[dfcowell]

Ghost is ridiculously good out of the box. Part of that comes from the opinionated stack it demands - support for only one database server, very specific and minimal config options.

I self-host Ghost and Plausible Analytics (along with several other services,) on an Unraid box at home, fronted by Cloudflare, and it holds up well to load. Costs next to nothing, too, since it inherits hand-me-down parts from my main desktop PC.

[pheeney]

What is your internet speed? Do you host any videos?

I'm self hosting a family blog frontend by Cloudflare but using wordpress instead. The media seems to be a bottleneck for me and I've kept most at 480p. Family a few states away report it takes quite a long time to get anything to load except for the html.

[dfcowell]

1Gbit symmetrical. That’s the standard residential connection in my part of Japan.

In theory I could get up to double that with a different ISP, but my router doesn’t handle those kind of speeds.

[pheeney]

I am trying to host on 40 mbps down and 5 mbps up, pretty tough. I might need to add a CDN but wanted to diy as much as possible.

[nickstinemates]

Just deployed Plausible. It's blocked by default on Ublock Origin, but I've been looking for a good simple solution. This seems good enough for now.

My preference would be to do something with nginx log analysis in Loki to get a broader perspective of all traffic flowing through nginx, but this will do for now.