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Looks like it is a neat project, thanks for open sourcing it. Do you plan to support static export?

If you need static export, I wrote a project a while back that converts markdown to static output with Ghost theme support: https://github.com/mixu/ghost-render

It's not yet planned, but definitely something that would be useful. I'll add it to the list.

Here's my high priority feature list right now:

Gzip support, hashes for serving static assets, multi-user support, support for all of the Ghost theme helpers, MySQL, Postgres, and Google App Engine support.

One of the reasons I started playing with Ghost is because generating the site statically allows for a lot of performance on a $5 VPS with nothing special but a fat internet pipe. As blogs are typically not heavy on the "interaction" aspects of things, this works really well.

So consider this a vote for "static site support". If I were to express that as a requirement it would be something like "Site is served off a set of static pages that were generated on demand as the content on them or around them changed."

I wish Octopress was this easy to use.

"One of the reasons I started playing with Ghost is because generating the site statically allows for a lot of performance on a $5 VPS with nothing special but a fat internet pipe. As blogs are typically not heavy on the "interaction" aspects of things, this works really well."

Wrote my own engine for exactly this reason.

All python, no templates and only one imported module (markdown) which I'm going to use pythons (why not in the first place?). I concur with the idea. Whole blog is about 1.4Mb of text. Images are hosted so it's AUD3.5/month to host the blog + domain.

It's not Ghost compatible. I based my template on Jeckyl. That is YAML front-matter followed by markdown. All contained in text files. It's a bit slot at the moment but works a charm.

What format are you following?

Heh, same. Used FrontPage for a while to basically "push" static pages to my site, then played with Blosxom for a bit but never published anything with it, wrote my own in Perl with Template toolkit and Markdown, and as that was going along, heard about and downloaded Ghost. Then built a 'theme' that matched my original skeumorphic notebook theme and basically have what I need to push the button on it (but haven't for some reason).

* hotdog (binary) -> site (worked there)

* blosxom (perl) -> site

* perl -> TT -> ftp -> site

* python -> webpy -> appengine -> site

now * python -> markdown -> ftp/ssh -> site

future

* [some back-end language/Rpi] -> js [front-end/iPad] -> [some transport layer] -> site

I'm trading simplicity for speed and turn-around. The tool-chain is all cli, vim + browser. At some stage soon I'll write either an api/server to allow a simple interface to speed up process.

The basic ideas are based on Dave Winer and Scripting.com

I had a look at the docs on github (I haven't checked the source yet) but it doesn't mention if it supports more than one domain (or SNI, but I'm assuming it would piggy back on Go's support for SNI).

If it doesn't yet support multi domain will it ever?

Interesting. I haven't thought about that. It should be possible, but is not implemented yet. Go does indeed support SNI, but I'm using ListenAndServeTLS at the moment + I'm loading only one SSL certificate right now.

I'll add that to the list as well. I think that might be a useful feature.

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