I was with Digital Press for my first adventure on Ghost but after a couple of months I moved to Ghost Pro.
Hi Jannis, I just wanted to ask myself a question, does your host also do this?
Or can I send my newsletter normally?
Because with this new company, what I understand is that they still have to integrate your email provider, for it to work.
The rest of the 1000 it gives is only for administrative purposes.
Can someone help me clear this doubt please, does it happen with the other hosts or is it just with this one?
It also happens to me that on your page Jannis, it does not charge me the annual and lifetime price.
On Magic Pages, the email limit is actually the other way around. It counts the newsletters you send, but transactional emails are completely disregarded from that limit.
No need for any email set up – it truly is managed.
I am not entirely sure how it works with other hosts, but I would rather think that if somebody says they include emails, it would mean the newsletters now transactional emails.
Can you tell me what you mean here? There are currently two different plans on Magic Pages (Starter and Pro) with three different payment periods (monthly, yearly, lifetime). Pricing should be visible either in your local currency or in USD (if no local currency can be offered for your country from my payment processor). The upgrade, however, happens after you start a trial.
Hello Jannis, what I meant to say here was that the prices on the page do not change when you change to year and lifetime, they remain static.
Hm, interesting.
Let me PM you to troubleshoot that – the prices are loaded from my payment processor, Paddle, through Javascript. So, could be that your browser is blocking that for some reason.
If you’re using Ghost for a newsletter, you’d really want to compare the price of Ghost Pro vs Mailgun, since when using a service like Midnight or Gloat, the bulk of your expense is going to be Mailgun as you grow.
Ghost Pro pricing is based on the amount of subscribers, while Mailgun pricing is based on the amount of emails you’re sending.
Something like a daily newsletter will cost a good amount more than a weekly newsletter with Mailgun.
If you have a list of 50k people, and send out a daily newsletter 5 days a week - that’s a million emails a month. On Mailgun, that’s $700/month, + say $65 for Midnight. So $765/month.
On Ghost Pro, 50k subscribers would be $394/month, for I think unlimited emails.
But if you have 50k subscribers, and only send out 1 newsletter a month, for example, you’d still be paying $394/month for Ghost Pro, but only $35/month for Mailgun (+ $21 for something like Midnight).
If you have the same amount of subscribers on Beehiiv, the monthly cost is $199/month for unlimited emails.
I’m currently using Ghost for my website/blog and plan on using Beehiiv for my newsletter I’m launching soon. I would love to use Ghost for my newsletter, but it’s lacking some functionality, and is priced a bit high.
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You’re absolutely right. Simply looking at the price is like comparing apples and pears.
But if you’re sending a million emails a month, I’d suggest reaching out to whichever host you choose – that’s a volume where custom pricing makes sense for both parties (because it also gives us hosters leverage with the companies that run the mailing infrastructure 
).
Definitely true. My main point is that the introductory pricing of most of these services seems pretty cheap, but increases quickly, and by quite a bit, as you grow.
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I am just getting started with things, and looking at the pricing, it is a bit hefty.
Only because I use a custom theme, I cannot chose the cheapest plan. So I am forced to pay $25 instead of $9 per month, which makes it a bit of a large price tag without any need for it.
Getting started is therefore very expensive. Depending on how quickly my blog would grow, I cannot calculate when my RoI will be.
Taking into account what was said here, about supporting the Ghost project by paying for Ghost (PRO), the team might want to re-think the pricing model for starters, to give a chance to get going (As the team also needs to consider that at the beginning, it’s all about reach and not revenue). Once the revenue is flowing, I understand the price tags.
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I recommend you to host your site on magicpage.co or @jannis
Check out the marketplace channel just published his proposal.
And it is one of the best in the market.
Marketplace
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