The Best Ghost CMS Hosting Platforms
Discover the best hosting options for your Ghost blog, including fully managed, semi-managed, and self-hosted platforms.
Summary
Fully managed hosting means that hosting providers take care of most server-related tasks for you, such as Ghost installation, upgrades, backups, email service setup, and technical support.
Ghost Pro
Ghost Pro is a fully managed Ghost hosting platform provided by official Ghost.
Pros
- Fully managed, including Ghost installation, upgrade, backup, and email setup.
- Worldwide CDN, very fast.
- Unlimited emails. Ideal for sites need to send a large amount of emails or newsletters.
- Email support, provided by the official Ghost team.
- 99.9% uptime SLA for the Team plan
- Unlimited storage space
- 14 Day free trial
Cons
- The most expensive option among Ghost managed hosting platforms.
- Costs increase as blog subscribers grow, with thresholds at 500, 1,000, 3,000, 5,000, etc.
- Many features require upgrading. For example, Starter plan users can't use custom themes, custom integrations and can only have one staff user and one newsletter.
Magic Pages
Magic Pages, started in 2024 and based in Austria, is a fully managed Ghost hosting platform provided by independent developer Jannis.
Pros
- Fully managed, including Ghost installation, upgrade, backup, and email setup.
- Cheap
- Full Backups Although Ghost provides built-in export functionality, this does not include uploaded media, newsletter analytics, etc. Magic Pages offers full content and database download options, which will provide a full backup for your Ghost site.
- Custom Ghost configuration: Ghost loads some external scripts for functionalities like comments, portal, search, etc. With the custom configuration capability, you can replace or exclude the external scripts.
- Subdirectory installation is available in all plans.
- Lifetime plan available, $120 for Starter plan, $349 for Pro plan.
- 99.9% uptime SLA for the Pro plan
- Unlimited storage space
- Although solely operating, Jannis provides responsive email support. One more plus, Jannis is very active in Ghost forums.
- 14 Day free trial
Cons
- CDN and custom themes are only available for the Pro plan.
- Limited newsletter sending (transactional email not inclueded). 2,000 per month for the Starter plan, 10,000 per month for the Pro plan, with additional emails available at $5.00 per 10,000 (very cheap).
- It's run by a sole proprietor. The support costs of a hosting service will scale as the number of users grows. So, how long such good performance can be maintained requires observation.
- Magic Pages reserves the right to decline hosting a Ghost blog: a past case
DigitalPress
DigitalPress, based in Slovakia, Europe and started in 2021, is a fully managed Ghost hosting platform.
Pros
- Fully managed, including Ghost installation, upgrade, backup, and email setup.
- Email support
- Free tier available (with Ads)
- Worldwide CDN support (only for files and images)
- Subdirectory installation is available in all plans.
- 99.9% uptime SLA for the Premium plan.
- You can use your own email service account.
Cons
- Free tier is supported by Ads.
- Custom themes only available for Standard and Premium plan.
- Not full site CDN support.
- Limited email sending
- Free tier: 200/m
- Starter plan: 2,000/m
- Standard plan: 8,000/m
- Premium plan: 15,000/m, then €0.7 per 1,000
- Limited storage space
- Free tier: 1GB
- Starter plan: 10GB
- Standard plan: 15GB
- Premium plan: 50GB
Compiled
Compiled is a semi-managed Ghost hosting platform, based in Sydney, Australia and started in 2020.
Pros
- Semi-managed, including Ghost installation, upgrade and backup. Email setup is not included.
- Cheap
- Email support
- Custom themes are available for all plans.
- Cloudflare CDN support
- 21 day free trial
Cons
- No support for newsletter emails. You need to have your own Mailgun account.
- Limited storage space
- Starter plan: 10GB
- Standard plan: 30GB
- Business plan: 50GB
- Upload Limit
- Starter plan: 10MB
- Standard plan: 25MB
- Business plan: 50MB
