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A visual guide showing how to install GoToSocial via YunoHost (blog.elenarossini.com)
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A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Thank you for bringing this up! This is Elena, the author of the blog https://blog.elenarossini.com/.

My Ghost blog is being hosted by Magic Pages... when I signed up last year they had a fully European stack (Bunny CDN) - something that is incredibly important to me.

Recently they moved from BunnyCDN to Cloudflare to keep costs down (prices had skyrocketed). I have no saying in this, but I understand Jannis and his team.

Magic Pages takes care of all the software updates and offers amazing support (plus it would cost me 2x to self-host it... I made the calculations).

And for the record, my personal website - which I self-host - uses BunnyCDN: elenarossini.com

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you for your reply. But if you can self-host your personal website, why don't you self-host Ghost?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Because Ghost now requires Docker and it’s way beyond my scope of expertise (I used to self-host a previous version with Ghost CLI - it will be sunset in the next version).

    Ghost is also expensive to self-host, especially the newsletter part. Magic Pages does all the maintenance and updates for me for the price of what I used to pay just for the newsletter integration… and I don’t have to worry about a thing 🥲

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    If you have your own server, I can write you a bash script for installing Ghost and updating it when you run the script.

    What do you say?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I appreciate the kind offer @airikr@lemmy.ml but no thank you.

    I self-hosted Ghost for almost a year via Ghost CLI and it was (1) expensive (2) stressful - especially dealing with potential DDOS attacks and with the newsletter company Mailgun who handles the newsletter part (and would throw me all kinds of random error messages).

    Self-hosting Ghost means spending TWICE as much and investing extra hours every month in maintenance.

    With Magic Pages I save money and Jannis and his team take care of all the maintenance and updates and respond immediately if I run into any issues.

    Yes I don't like Cloudflare but I wouldn't go to these lengths just to avoid it.

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