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A Superb Blog for a Great Price. AWS Meets Ghost.
Have you struggled finding a great blogging platform?
I’ve tried many different CMS systems over the years, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and so on. They all didn’t look very modern and aren’t optimized for speed, SEO, and reliability. Oftentimes, these will even require plugins to be fully optimized.
Other options are often quite expensive while not providing the best functionalities. In this article, we’ll take a look at Ghost CMS and how to easily set it up on AWS.
Meet Ghost
Ghost CMS is a content-driven blogging platform that allows users to read blog posts in a content-focused manner, while writers can write posts in a clean, distraction-free interface. Have a look at how it looks like in the below screenshot.
It is very simple, yet efficient. Ghost features automatic Google AMP integration, which can give a nice boost to your website in terms of SEO. Furthermore, it is also very optimized in terms of speed! Let’s take a look at the PageSpeed Insights for this website running Ghost. Ghost is obviously very optimized right out of the box.
A 92% score on Google’s PageSpeed insights. If you are not familiar with this, it is a really amazing score and not easy to get at all. A lot of famous websites have a much lower page speed score. We already know for a fact, Google does rank websites based on page speed score!
Speed is now a landing page factor for Google Search and Ads; Google Developers
The cherry on the top, this PageSpeed score was achieved while being hosted on an AWS T2 Nano EC2 instance! If you are not familiar with it, this is one of the cheapest, least powerful servers you can get from Amazon and costs around 36EUR per year. All in all, very affordable, while having quality software that optimizes your blog in the best ways…
