Anyone here using ghost for their personal site/blog? How do you like it?
My personal website is a rails app. It's been a lot of fun to build, and I love that in theory there are unlimited possibilities as far as what I can do with it. Unfortunately there's also the reality that my site is probably lacking in a lot of things that you get out of the box with something like ghost or wordpress. For example, I'm not an seo guy, and I think my personal site suffers because of this. In some cases I could have an article that is months old and has been indexed by google, but trying to google something as exact as my domain name plus the very specific title for the article will lead to no results. It's not even that it is buried, it's just not there at all.
I'm thinking about switching it up and moving my site to a cms, and ghost seems like it would be a lot of fun. I'd love to hear from anyone here currently using ghost, I'm wondering:
- What do you like about it?
- Do you self-host or use pro?
- How is the experience customizing or building your own template/theme?
- How is ghost for things like seo?
- What don't you like about it?
We have RoR and wanted to add a blog. We did not want heavy code like Ghost nor Wordpress since we expected heavy traffic long term. We built a homegrown RoR blog on our code base with AWS S3 as the CMS. It worked out nicely. The images, title and body of the blog are stored in AWS s3 " as public". We store those URL paths, and prefix text in our postgress db. The articles are pulled into a RoR blog template page using txt files stored in AWS s3. The Title becomes the page URL. We used a tag cloud for the topic search. We have two date types, date of creation, and date as a way to order the articles. We publish, edit and delete from a small form in our admin section of the product. No SSL problems.
I use Ghost for the eventOne blog.