Publishing

Ghost

Node.js publishing platform for blogs and paid newsletters, with built-in memberships and email delivery.

Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.

Community

100

Development

100

Maintenance

Risk

54,478 GitHub stars Last commit: 1 days ago Last release: 3 days ago Open issues: 133 License: MIT

Hardware

RAM minimum1024 MB

RAM recommended2048 MB

CPU idle~0.1 cores

CPU recommended2 vCPU

ARM supportPartial

Access & auth

Needs reverse proxy✓ Yes

OIDC support✗ No

LDAP support✗ No

Multi-user✓ Yes

Mobile appBoth

Operations

MaturityStable

Maintenance burdenMedium

Setup difficultyMedium

Backup methodMySQL dump + content folder (images/themes) — the built-in JSON export is metadata only, not a full backup

Leaving the cloud

Migration difficultyMedium

Replaces

MediumSubstackWordPress.com

Relationships

Install via

Docker ComposeNative

Requires

MySQL

Works well with

CaddyTraefik

Recommended backup

Native/Manual

Our notes

MySQL is a hard requirement, not optional — Ghost dropped SQLite for production use. Official ARM Docker images are less consistently maintained than amd64, worth testing on your actual Pi/ARM box before committing. Newsletter delivery needs its own SMTP/Mailgun-style config; it's not free email sending baked in.