Hacker News Reader

Their hosted version starts at $29/mo ($19/mo if you commit to 1 year), so probably not many personal bloggers there.

29?? Why is it so expensive?

Normally I would disagree with you, but it's running fine on my $5/month droplet. So... I'm saving $24/month because I know how to type "npm install."

What do you mean? I don't see anything on their site about being able to self-host it.

You can find out more info about self-hosting and how to install 1.0 in the docs: https://docs.ghost.org/docs/getting-started-guide

Digital Ocean also has a droplet with a pre-1.0 version pre-installed and ready to use.

I think the parent comment is referring to the open source code which you can self-host for free. You just need to pay for the metal/cloud that runs it.

See: https://docs.ghost.org/v0.11.9/docs/getting-started-guide/

you manually set it up? its one of the pre-configured images!

Honestly, I didn't know that, but I set it up quite some time ago. And it wasn't that painful. :)

Having automated security updates, backups and support has value though. Every server you have to admin is overhead.

DO has a preconfigured image but last time I checked it out it was pretty out of date.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com