Heya folks!
Just thought I’d share a guide I created a few years ago, and have actively maintained since then — it’s about how to host Ghost specifically on Google Cloud, where a small site can run well on the free tier.
The guide pulls together some steps for setting up Cloudflare, Mailgun, and Google Cloud (on top of the Ghost self-host instructions), and it’s basically my runbook when setting up websites for clients with a strong budget constraint.
I also share my maintenance script in there, which ever since Ghost-CLI 1.28 when ghost backup could now use environment variables, is fully self-running.
I hope this helps, and let me know if you’d like to see more Ghost self-host walkthroughs! 