How we Spent the Kickstarter Money, where we are now, and what’s next for Ghost

As a developer, the costs towards developing ghost seems high: 3 employees and $70,907.89 on subcontracting. Is my mindset wrong?<p>I like ghost.org, it&#x27;s clean and fast. OTOH it&#x27;s not complicated or revolutionary, is it? I followed ghost for a while and was not impressed by the pace of development. New features took ages.<p>Anyone know why the development is so (seemingly) slow? Bureaucracy? Slow decision making?

In an age where everybody talks about cloud infrastructure, I find it a very interesting decision to spend $30k on servers up front.<p>Apart from reducing operating costs, I never thought about servers as assets. Essentially, using things like AWS for operations makes the money go away as soon as it&#x27;s spent. That&#x27;s a very real risk if you&#x27;re striving for a sustainable business that doesn&#x27;t run on ads and you don&#x27;t yet know where this is going.

Wow, 10% of funding money towards the domain. Am I being a prude for thinking that&#x27;s a lot?

Could someone comment on why the monthly hosting is $3,042.68? Is that the cost of running their servers?