I'm using Ghost to host my blog: <a href="http://www.sergiotapia.me/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sergiotapia.me/</a><p>CPanel has a great 1 click installer. It just works out of the box.<p>Things I like about it are markdown support, and... that's pretty much it. I'm kind of underwhelmed by it.<p>No comment system, I had to tack Disqus on to the handlebars template file.<p>No statistics? It's a planned feature, but I feel like this should have been like priority one. Bloggers like to see that people are reading their material.<p>Slow despite being so light in features. This one suprised me; the page is so miniscule in feature that I wonder why it's taking so long to render blog pages.<p>No syntax highlighting built into the markdown for code support. :(<p>I feel like Ghost has tremendous potential but it's just underwhelming in it's current state. It's landing page marketing is fantastic, hell it got me to use it, but once I had it I was like: "is this it?"
Before I make a comment I wanted to say I think Ghost is an awesome initiative and hope that it furthers what's already been accomplished by Wordpress.<p>That being said, I was a bit bummed to see it as a pay only option. I get it, you have to pay bills. Seriously, I get it - we just ditched our consumer product due to this fact.<p>$5/month is more than I'm willing to pay to try it out. And in reality, it's too much for me to pay even if I like it. That keeps me from trying it out and falling in love with it.<p>You know what I would pay $5/month for? A blog for my business. But I'll end up installing or signing up on Wordpress because I'm familiar with it. Because I was able to use it for free.<p>This mentality sucks, I know. Welcome to the consumer Internet.<p>Edit: I'm not suggesting that they offer a free plan. I wouldn't. I hope they focus sooner than later off the consumer market.