Ghost is an open source, professional publishing platform built on a modern Node.js technology stack — designed for teams who need power, flexibility and performance.
Ghost (That’s us!) | Open platforms (eg. WordPress) | Closed platforms (eg. Substack) | |
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🏎 Exceptionally fast | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
🔒 Reliably secure | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
🎨 Great design | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
🚀 Modern technology | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
💌 Newsletters built-in | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
🛒 Memberships & paid subscriptions | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
♻️ Open Source | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
🏰 Own your brand+data | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
🌍 Use a custom domain | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
🖼 Control your site design | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
💸 0% transaction fees on payments | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
⭐️ Built-in SEO features | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
🚀 Native REST API | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
❤️ Non-profit organisation with a sustainable business model | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
/en/
and /de/
base URLs, or you want to build out specific directory structures for hierarchical data like /europe/uk/london/
— Ghost’s routing layer can be manipulated in any number of ways to achieve your use case.
rel="canonical"
tag for each post and page so that search engines always prioritise one true link.