Robin Riley
Wow. Self hosting Ghost is delightfully simple, especially with the Docker container. Nice change of pace from the last few applications I set up on my new server :blobcat_glasses:
Now it's just down to setting up Matrix and Pixelfed!
Then I'll have functionally replaced my old server, and can begin winding it down. Looking forward to knocking a couple hundred a month off my hosting bills :blobcat_bongo:
Yuchen Pei
Robin Riley
@lightweight I had everything piled into Digital Ocean droplets, probably could've saved money by introducing a dedicated storage solution but it was more complexity than I was willing to deal with 😂
When I'm done with this project my storage will all be down to local machines and off-site backups, with some low wattage cloud servers to act as proxies.
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
@robin nice.Yeah, I moved a lot of stuff from DO to Hetzner, and saved 60%...
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
@robin where/how were you hosting previously? Fully managed services? I've found moving my work off AWS & Azure, we lowered our costs 95% across the board. Paying trivial amounts for cloud hosting now. We have grandfathered server at Hetzner with big disks and back up to it, otherwise storage is a minor cost for us. We don't use object storage, all block storage. I back personal stuff up to home servers w/big disks at home & I host stuff here, too.
Now just need to play with Ghost more.
Robin Riley
@lightweight Oh excellent! Glad to have another fellow traveler. The storage costs were what really pushed me over the edge :blobcat_sleepless:
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
@robin I've done that too (self hosting Ghost) - and yeah, it's quite straightforward, eh! And am doing the same with Matrix and Pixelfed, although I have some work to do to tidy things up after the latest Pixelfed upgrade... but yeah, the savings in hosting is massive. All my external systems are running on Hetzner's 7 euro/month instances. Crazy cost-effective. (hosting a lot of other services besides those 3)...
Elena Rossini ⁂
@lightweight @robin quick question Robin & Dave: are you self-hosting Ghost on a fresh install... or did you move from a paid Ghost to a self-hosted Ghost account? (I'm curious about the latter, as I pay $31 a month for a Creator plan but now I have the skills to self-host it)
Badri
Elena Rossini ⁂
@lightweight great point (re: lack of documentation).
I keep putting this off but the more time passes, the more posts I would have to move, yikes 😅
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
@_elena @robin started from scratch... although I did investigate the migration process when someone asked about it here (perhaps you?), and though it's poorly documented (because why would a commercial entity want to make it easy to migrate away from its service **eyeroll**) it looks fairly easy... I got the impression it's as easy as "use the 'migrate to Ghost hosting' but in reverse"... but I haven't tried it...
Elena Rossini ⁂
@badri cool! In your experience, was it easy / painless to download your Ghost data and re-upload your posts in your self-hosted Ghost site? I'm a little scared of that 😅
Elena Rossini ⁂
@lightweight I was thinking more in terms of media (photos / videos embedded in a post)
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
@_elena I got the impression it's a pretty automated process once you've got it set up, so I don't think it matters that much when you do it...
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