Why Ghost CMS?

More than that, why hosted Ghost CMS?

Well, if you've read my earlier post about my stack: it's not Wordpress or PHP of any kind. It's more secure and efficient. It's clean and open source.

It's not as complex as many other CMS solutions. It's not as old, either. It may not be as easy for me to customize, but I don't plan to use it for that anyway.

A long time coming.

The truth is, I've been meaning to - and wanting to - get into content creation and software development and all kinds of other projects for years. I've always had one thing get in the way of that desire or another.

The real point and purpose of using this platform is for me to get started with as little barriers of entry as possible. Now I am writing and producing. Even if it's just this crappy blog, it's something. I'm now more focused and actually taking the additional steps necessary to retool myself and produce even better products.

Hosted is easy. I can always self-host and run this on my own server. I can take the time to set that up and maintain it. I'd rather not. I'd rather not have to perform CI/CD including testing with every applicable Ghost patch. I'd rather not have to deal with the complexities of getting it working on that-flavor of Linux (every flavor or version can have gotchas – especially when it comes to NodeJS).

Maybe I will self-host. Maybe I'll have a few projects that I want to run on Ghost and it would make sense. Maybe I'll want to go deeper with it and do my own customization or build my own templates.

For now, this works great.