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DNS setup on the free trial worked quickly, though forcing the www subdomain without an obvious root-domain toggle in settings is frustrating.
“Is the are some of the custom domain settings locked on trials, or am I missing something obvious?”
Leaving eighteen years of self-hosted WordPress behind made it easy to focus purely on writing instead of playing sysadmin. Support helped migrate the archive over smoothly, though it took some time and effort to learn the new setup.
“The prime reason is that I want to focus exclusively on writing and blogging, not being a WordPress site admin.”
Starter-plan subscription confirmation emails from the shared ghost.io domain land straight in Gmail spam, and support has been unresponsive unless you pay double for a higher tier.
“Subscription confirmation emails on my Ghost site are landing in spam, those sent to Gmail addresses anyway. I'm on the starter plan, so emails are coming from mysite@ghost.io.”
Works great out of the box for standard blogs and newsletters, though deep theme and homepage layout customizations are restrictive compared to self-hosting.
“My one regret with Ghost Pro is that I’ve wanted to do a lot of design customization that ranges from fiddly to downright difficult compared to editing a Wordpress theme.”
Delivers fast page loads with built-in caching and CDN performance.
“We use Ghost Pro and it is extremely fast, great caching/CDN. If you use a badly optimised theme I'm sure it is still possible to have bad CWVs.”
Hosted my blog there before moving to SynapsMedia so I could focus on writing without managing servers.
“I've been with SynapsMedia (from Ghost Pro and also from "self-hosted" (but not managed by me) and I've been quite happy with them so far.”
Learning as a paying member that the managed platform doesn't maintain recoverable automated backups of your site makes me want to self-host again.
“Really? what’s the point of hosted services if they would not provide something like this? Ghost pro member here but reading this I might as well self host again.”
Offloads CDN caching, server maintenance, and updates so even technical writers can focus entirely on writing and marketing.
“I'm a technical person, and I use Ghost Pro.”
Running a site for five months on the Headline theme works well aside from low-contrast accessibility warnings on post metadata.
“Has anyone got a recommendation for a Ghost Pro theme that has been designed for **accessibility**?”
Love the platform itself, though hosted tier limitations make changing hosts appealing.
“it seems it's 89$ once. not 30$ recurrent”
Older than 24 months. These may describe an earlier version.
Purchased a site running on the platform and enjoy its publishing simplicity, though I miss the plugin flexibility of WordPress.
“It takes time to get used to it, but I am starting to enjoy using Ghost Pro because of the simplicity of the platform.”
Platform fits my project needs during the trial, but newsletter emails to Outlook land in Junk and Gmail sorts them into Promotions.
“LOVING ghost so far and it fits my project needs perfectly, but during testing I see that most of my post emails go to Junk (Outlook) or Updates/Promotions (Gmail).”
Layout options for regular versus featured posts look great, and the writing interface is super clean after a short learning curve. On the downside, built-in analytics are pretty basic and you don't get alerts for new subscribers.
“The interface is pretty solid: easy to write and get things out to folks.”
Running two sites on the managed platform solved the newsletter deliverability headaches from DigitalOcean and got everything live in a couple of hours. Emails stopped landing in spam and support even walked through custom theme code, though starter tiers limit custom themes.
“Their support is awesome, even walked me through adding some code to my theme (specific need).”
Default 404 page is crude and much harder to customize than on WordPress.
“This was fairly simple when I used WordPress, but I struggle to do anything like this with Ghost.”
Managed hosting tier doesn't let you edit the config file to offload large high-definition video files to AWS S3.
“Is it possible to host a ghost blog on ghost(pro) (not self hosted) and set up AWS S3 integration for media files?”
Of the 10 reviews with a clear verdict, 30% are positive, 50% mixed and 20% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is expensive.
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (6 reviews), easy migration (1 review) and fast (1 review). For example: Offloads CDN caching, server maintenance, and updates so even technical writers can focus entirely on writing and marketing.
The complaints reviewers mention most: expensive (2 reviews), poor support (2 reviews) and email delivery problems (1 review). For example: Starter-plan subscription confirmation emails from the shared ghost.io domain land straight in Gmail spam, and support has been unresponsive unless you pay double for a higher tier.
16 are quotes from discussions on Reddit, each linked to the original post. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear, and only they count toward the star rating; quotes never do.