The memory requirement is 2GB RAM for self-hosted Ghost which is very reasonable. I have a personal blog not expecting much traffic, so I run it on a 1GB droplet on DigitalOcean. It uses 80-90% RAM after installation as expected, but Ghost can not be updated which is frustrating. By tweaking the …

Running Ghost on 1GB RAM - mySQL fix

thimiraonline January 20, 2023, 11:04am 4

So I made a tutorial for making swap.

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