I Haven't hosted it myself, but it seems pretty similar to WordPress based on my use.
Looking to start an email list for friends, family, supporters, etc.
Do many people here use #ghost ? I know nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy does, but I haven't heard of many others.
Do you pay for their SaaS? Being somewhat technical the temptation to self host is real.
I was starting to evaluate Listmonk, as a cheap open-source option, with about $2/mo hosting on PikaPods, but getting email to the destination reliably I have recently learned is a problem which is not free to solve.
What do you think? Go with the Ghost???
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My site is already based on Wordpress so maybe I should just figure out how to do mailing lists from there.
But I do like the separation
Depending on how you're doing email, there's already a lot of mailing list integrations for WordPress.
I’m using sendgrid with Wordpress for some limited things already. But I hate that it’s another 3rd party.
ProtonMail has a similar SMTP service for business “in early beta” which I tried to sign up for and they just told me no, which kinda sucks.
Hate that reliable email costs like $20-$30 a month. Wayyy more than my web hosting.
Yeah, email is a real pain in the ass right now, especially With recent Google and Yahoo updates, I host my own mail server, so I understand not wanting to use another third party. I recently had to send out a warning email to my clients before the update saying that they might want to whitelist my domains so they don't get immediately shunted into spam.
Ok good to know. I’m going to have to ponder the trade offs of:
my time
my money
my idealism
And come to a solution. Thanks nostr:npub1gnwpctdec0aa00hfy4lvadftu08ccs9677mr73h9ddv2zvw8fu9smmerrq !