Questions about Ghost

[Franklin2727]

-Is there a limit on traffic? I see the payment plans per month are related to number of subscribers… But is there a cap or slowing of traffic beyond a certain point on the lower paying plans?

-Is there any way to speed up the mobile load time on the news theme? I see largest content paint loads in 3.9s on mobile which isn’t as fast as my wordpress site with generatepress & WP rocket.

-Is it easy to convert a wordpress website to ghost website and vice-versa (say I ever wanted to revert back)?

-How profitable is Ghost? Is there a chance they’d go out of business? I won’t want to join and then have the platform go defunct and be left hanging.

-If writing about socially sensitive topics - is there any way if pressured Ghost would cave and divulge personal information? Or are privacy protections good? (I’m not talking about illegal content - I’m talking strictly socially/politically sensitive/charged topics)

-How fast is the hosting compared to Kinsta? I am currently with Kinsta…

Thanks for any help here…

[RyanF]

There’s an important distinction here:

• Ghost is free, open-source software. https://github.org/tryghost/ghost/
• Ghost(Pro) is the official hosting provider of Ghost: https://ghost.org

Your questions are primarily about Ghost(Pro). Please reach out to our support for anything not answered here. support@ghost.org

• Pricing is listed here: Ghost(Pro) - Official managed hosting for Ghost. There’s no limit on traffic.
• There are a couple of different news themes. Which one were you looking at? Ghost is fast, so it’s not something you usually need to worry about.
• We have tooling, services, and a community that’s available to help migrate content to Ghost. Likewise, all content in Ghost can be exported and migrated to other platforms. How to Migrate to Ghost from other platforms
• Ghost has been self-sustaining since its first year, 10 years ago. All company metrics (like the software) are open and available: About Ghost - The Open Source Publishing Platform
• Here’s our terms of service: Ghost.org Terms of Service
• Ghost(Pro) employs industry-leading techniques for top-of-the-line hosting.

[Franklin2727]

Ahh yes my questions were primarily for Ghost Pro.

So I could have unlimited traffic (e.g. millions of visitors) so long as I don’t have many subscribers and there would be no lag in website loading or performance?

Thanks am liking what I’ve read about Ghost.