Best WordPress Alternative?

[Shawn Gossman]

For those of you who will not use WordPress, for whatever reason you choose, what alternative out there do you prefer to use and why?

 

[meetdilip]

I have been looking for this for years now. I never found one.

WordPress is unique and comfortable in many ways. There is no effective replacement as of now.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have been looking for this for years now. I never found one.

WordPress is unique and comfortable in many ways. There is no effective replacement as of now.

I agree with that.

It's bitter-sweet, too. Sweet because it's WordPress and so easy to use. Bitter because what if something happened to WordPress, and we desperately needed an alternative that was that good???

 

[meetdilip]

WordPress is a FOSS. Let us assume nothing goes wrong to that protection.

 

[JWeb]

I tried out Ghost before and I enjoyed the simplicity of it. It's not as extensible as WordPress but it can get the job done.

 

[meetdilip]

Ghost is what everyone recommends when people ask for a WordPress alternative.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I tried out Ghost before and I enjoyed the simplicity of it. It's not as extensible as WordPress but it can get the job done.

Ghost is expensive, though, right? It's not free?

 

[meetdilip]

Not free when the last time I checked.

 

[JWeb]

Ghost is expensive, though, right? It's not free?

There's the official hosting they provide like wordpress.com, but it is open-source so you can download the software and run it on a server, like WordPress.

The requirements to run Ghost, from my understanding, requires a server with more resources then what you would need to run WordPress, where it can get expensive.

 

[meetdilip]

Do they have GitHub repo? Link please..

 

[JWeb]

Do they have GitHub repo? Link please..

Here you go: GitHub - TryGhost/Ghost: Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

 

[meetdilip]

Thanks @JWeb

 

[meetdilip]

These are the system requirements for self hosting

Hosting a Ghost publication - Fully-managed PaaS & self-hosted

The most efficient way to deploy an instance of Ghost is on our official fully-managed PaaS. Or you can self-host using our recommended stack!

ghost.org

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Have you ever used Ghost @meetdilip ?

 

[meetdilip]

Only once. Years ago. Haven't tried recently.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Only once. Years ago. Haven't tried recently.

I might have to give it a shot to see what it's all about.

 

[meetdilip]

I might have to give it a shot to see what it's all about.

Do share you experience.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I will I just need to figure out a topic to write about haha