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by kennydude 1052 days ago
How is it the best?

The biggest thing is, is this a sustainable price? And what if I want to move elsewhere?

WordPress is still pretty popular because you can pack up and take your WordPress content and data anywhere (either built-in export/import; or something like All in One Migration)
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ayewo 1052 days ago
You can do the same with Ghost—pack up and take your Ghost content and data to any host (using the ghost-cli) but it’s not easy to do seamlessly.

I’m hoping to automate Ghost blog migration but I’m not done yet [1]. Hopefully I’ll find time in August to finish it up, God willing.

1: https://github.com/ayewo/ghost.sh/

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kennydude 1052 days ago
Ah fantastic to hear about Ghost picking up these features! Having options is always good :)
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ayewo 1052 days ago
Yep :).

They’ve definitely put a lot of thought into the CLI.

For instance, you can stand up a new Ghost blog completely unattended and I figured out how to set a reasonably long admin password using curl rather than leave the admin setup page at domain.com/ghost exposed on the Internet where anyone can easily takeover the blog if they land on that page before you. The risk of it happening is quite low, but it’s still a risk I’m not comfortable with.

Also, the export-import flow using the CLI works pretty well but there are some manual steps involved which I’m working to automate when migrating between hosts.

I’m willing to bet they already have tools for doing what I plan to do with ghost.sh in-house.

Too bad Ghost’s focus is on driving people to sign up for their DFY (Done For You) paid service that is Ghost(Pro).

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