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How to host a highly scalable ghost publication for free
Software Engineering

How to host a highly scalable ghost publication for free

TL;DR: Spin up a local container running Ghost, crawl the frontend to generate a static site, and upload to a free static host. While there's quite a few options for statically hosting written content for free, most of these involve using markdown as your writing interface. While this is
Feb 22, 2022 — 5 min read
How we reduced our failed payment rate by 92%
Software Engineering

How we reduced our failed payment rate by 92%

Originally posted on Gousto Engineering & Data [https://medium.com/gousto-engineering-techbrunch] Most Gousto customers choose to get their recipe boxes [https://www.gousto.co.uk/] on a subscription basis: every week they choose their recipes from our menu, and we pick, pack and deliver them to their door. To give customers
Nov 16, 2020 — 4 min read
Why Ghost?
Software Engineering

Why Ghost?

Back in the day I used WordPress quite a bit. It had many appealing qualities - it was easy to host, very extendable and had a huge community of users. So huge that even in 2020, WordPress runs over 33% [https://kinsta.com/wordpress-market-share/] of all websites. I used WordPress
Sep 24, 2020 — 1 min read
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