Ghost Hosting

Ghost

Ghost is a standardized blogging CMS platform. Its concept was initially publicized in November 2012 in a blog post by project creator John O'Nolan, after getting irritated while facing the difficulty of using WordPress as a blogging solution. Ghost Hosting is one of the simplest methods to create a blogging site, thanks to its user-friendly interface, thousands of themes, and complex integrations. It is a perfect choice for starting a blog, media, or newsletter website.

Ghost is a free and open-source blogging platform, written in Node.js, a server-side JavaScript execution engine, with an admin interface written in Ember.js. Posts can be authored in a WYSIWYG editor from version 2.0. Previously, Ghost only supported Markdown. It is distributed under the MIT License. The first version of Ghost, which was published in October 2013, was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign, which raised a total of £196,362, throughout the 29-day. To work on the Ghost platform and the surrounding community infrastructure, the platform employs 25 full-time employees.

Monetization: Ghost also offers a subscription option, which is ideal for content providers, that want to monetize their audience. You may add a payment gateway and sell access to your content, using the membership module.

SEO capabilities: Ghost Hosting has built-in SEO and analytics capabilities, that can help you optimize your website, scale up search engine ranking, and improve overall client experience. Ghost includes some famous SEO approaches like Automatic XML sitemap creation, URL optimization, FB Open Graph tags, and Google AMP support.

Email Notifications: With Ghost Hosting, you can send out attractive, professional-looking email newsletters to your audience, ensuring that individuals who are interested in your fresh content, see your site automatically as you post something new.

Popularity: According to the official Ghost site, big names like Apple, and Mozilla utilizes Ghost for their blogs. Ghost's main focus is blogging, hence the design and functions are intentionally simplistic. This makes the site simple to navigate for newcomers and maintains the user interface as clean as possible.

Features: Ghost Hosting has a lot of publishing and editing options. Ghost has a dark mode feature, supports markdown, and provides a variety of embed possibilities.

Pages: Ghost’s tagging system is an excellent approach to structuring your website, and establishing topic clusters for the subjects covered in your blogs. You may even create a unique URL for each page on your website, using the paid version of Ghost. You can use dynamic tags and internal tags to arrange your information.

Other Functionalities: The Ghost dashboard includes a control panel, engagement and growth metrics, and suggestions. By default, Ghost allows users to change the generated URLs. Users can schedule their posts, to be published at a later time. Featured posts are highlighted when a user marks them. Ghost also supports templates for custom posts. For each category, collection, and author archive, Ghost creates an automated RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, which makes it easy to find relevant material. As well as, explore new information.

Databases

Ghost uses the Bookshelf.js ORM layer, which supports a variety of databases. In development, SQLite3 is the preferred database, whereas MySQL is suggested for production.

Additionally, while Ghost by default utilizes local file storage, custom storage managers can be used to make your filesystem external. There are several pre-made storage managers for Ghost, that can be used right away.

Infrastructure

At its core Ghost is a RESTful JSON API, with a separated admin client and front-end area. Ghost includes a default Handlebars.js frontend, for getting a site up and running quickly. As well as, thorough instructions for working directly with the API, and utilizing available SDKs.

For editors, Ghost offers the rich editor that every writer desires, but it also has considerably more power behind the hood than you might anticipate. All information is saved in MobileDoc, a JSON-based document storage system, that includes support for Cards, which are also extendable. Ghost Hosting provides you complete control over the front-end, it allows you to browse a big database of ready-to-use integrations with instructions, or write your unique integration using JavaScript and Markup, to accomplish whatever you desire.

Privacy

You don't have to give your work away for free, simply because you put it online. You can earn a living with Ghost's memberships and subscriptions, by correctly managing an engaged community of followers and subscribers. You also have the option of putting your important content behind a paywall.

Integrations

You can connect over 5,000 applications and services to your Ghost site, directly through Zapier. Slack, Google Ads Manager, and Gmail, among several other apps, are all supported by Ghost Hosting. Some are pre-configured, while others may be set up manually if necessary.

Fast site speed

Ghost sites can be up to 20 times quicker than WordPress sites. Unlike a WordPress-based site, plugins aren’t a necessity in Ghost Hosting, which can have a significant influence on the site speed. Your site is not burdened with unnecessary plugins, speed is such an important feature for search engine rankings, and this is a substantial benefit for your website.

Hostdive Ghost Hosting

The benefit of using a specified Ghost Hosting service, is that they manage your site according to the conditions perfect for Ghost. It keeps the site stable, during high traffic volumes, and keeps your site running smoothly.

With the Hostdive Ghost Hosting service, you will get a global CDN (Content Delivery Network) that keeps your site up. In case of any physical server defect, a server on another location will pick up your site, and your site will stay online, till the situation has been resolved. Hostdive Shared Web Hosting also provides frequent updates, so whenever there is a new version or any security update released, you will get updated in real-time. Ghost hosting backs up your site to prevent data loss, if your site gets hacked or any other disaster takes place, you can always get up and continue from there. These are all just a few of the Ghost hosting services.

Hostdive Ghost hosting plans come with a 99% uptime guarantee, ensuring that your site won't crash or go down. Our servers are highly optimized for huge traffic spikes, we provide state-of-the-art security to our client’s websites using the latest technology trends!