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 🥲
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.