Anyone here successfully get a Ghost blog federated with ActivityPub?
Been researching this and sounds like it’s perhaps still in beta. I want to set up a website/blog and leaning towards installing self-hosted Ghost on a VPS. Would Ghost even be the right thing to use if I have no interest in email newsletters? (continued)
I’m no expert engineer but I’ve successfully set up NGINX, MySQL, and WordPress on an Ubuntu VPS in the past.
Ghost has official instructions for Digital Ocean and Linode, and I have an inactive Linode account, but I am considering using a different provider. But, wondering if I should just stick with Linode since it is more supported?
@andrewbriscoe Digital Ocean and Linode are my “go to” choices and have been since I helped manage a phalanx of several hundred clients that we (deliberately) had scattered among a long list of providers. The one exception is Email Servers; Digital Ocean is not a good choice there. But you're doing that.
I used to also recommend Vultr, but they've been having reliability problems of late.
@alameth Thank you for the advice! I decided to stick with Linode for now and just set it up on the cheapest plan. I’m also not sure if I’m going to use the email newsletter part so I disabled the newsletter for now. I really haven’t paid attention but looking at the Ghost website it looks like they are now marketing it for creators of all kinds. Will try to find some explainers tomorrow. I can always migrate it elsewhere or to their own hosted service if it makes sense to do.