What is the maintenance required by a self hosted ghost site?

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I mean, once the installation on DigitalOcean and the mail is setup, do I just need to run a ghost update/upgrade when new versions are out?

Or am I missing something?

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Yes.

You’ll also have to keep the digital ocean instance on which you’re hosting secure and updated. Same goes for any other dependencies you might be using, like nginx, mysql, etc…

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Thanks. So basically I have to make a sudo apt get update regularly. How do you handle this? I mean, is it possible to schedule the job and automate it or is it just fine to do that when you update ghost?

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You can configure your Ubuntu server for automatic updates:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates

You can also set a cron job to automatically update Ghost weekly if you so choose to. This is the script I use to update multiple Ghost installations at once:

for d in ./*/ ; do (cd "$d/public/" && ghost update); done

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Thanks for sharing this, Daniel! I changed it a bit to work on DigitalOcean.

for d in /var/www/*/ ; do (cd "$d/" && ghost update); done
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in which file do you put this code?

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I use it directly on the command line.

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You can create a script ghost-update.sh, which you then run in your /etc/crontab file. This highly depends on where you host your site and what kind of admin/panel you have access to as most of them have some sort of cron job setup functionality.

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this is because you have more than one blog? otherwise cd /var/www/ghost and ghost update would be enough?

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Yes, I do have many installations.

Using cd /var/www/ghost and ghost update will be enough if you have only one.

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