Managed Ghost Blog Hosting
for writers who own their audience
Run your own Ghost publication on a dedicated UK container — memberships, newsletters and paid subscriptions with no per-subscriber cut. One click to provision; we hand you the admin login.
Fixed GBP pricing · no usage billing · 30-day money-back guarantee.
One click, fully managed
How Ghost runs on G7Cloud
Ghost is a managed one-click platform here. You never touch a server, a config file or an installer — you pick Ghost in the dashboard and start writing.
Pick Ghost, name your site
Choose Ghost from the app types in your dashboard. We provision a dedicated container on UK infrastructure and a database that belongs to that site alone.
We hand you the keys
Admin credentials are provisioned for you. Log into your /ghost admin panel and you are writing within minutes — no CLI, no MySQL setup, no ghost install.
Point your domain
Your site is live immediately on yoursite.apps.g7cloud.com. Add a custom domain whenever you like — free automatic TLS included, wildcard certificates too.
We keep it running
Daily backups (every backup is restore-tested nightly in a sandbox), per-minute uptime monitoring with alerts, and ScaleShield WAF and bot protection in front of every request.
What sits around your Ghost container
Its own database
Every Ghost site gets a dedicated MariaDB database — one database per site, never shared tables. Export your content any time; it is yours.
ScaleShield + free TLS
WAF and bot protection in front of every request, with free automatic TLS certificates — wildcards included.
Backups that provably restore
Daily, weekly or monthly schedules plus manual backups — and every backup is restore-tested nightly in a real sandbox, so you find out it works before you need it.
Per-minute monitoring
Uptime checks every minute with email, webhook and Slack alerts, resource metrics with 90-day retention, and TLS expiry alerts.
Why Ghost here
Ghost at its best, minus the server admin
Everything below is live on the platform today — no roadmap promises.
Memberships and paid subscriptions
Ghost has members, tiers and paid subscriptions built in. Connect your own Stripe account and revenue goes straight to you — no platform percentage, just your flat hosting fee.
Newsletters from your own site
Write once, publish to the web and send to subscribers from the same editor. Connect your own Mailgun key in Ghost settings for bulk newsletter delivery.
An editor built for writing
Ghost’s distraction-free editor supports markdown, embeds and rich cards. It is one of the main reasons writers move from WordPress.
SEO handled by default
XML sitemaps, canonical tags, structured data and clean URLs come out of the box — no SEO plugin stack to install and maintain.
Themes you fully control
Use any Ghost theme — official, third-party or your own Handlebars build — uploaded straight through the admin panel. Your design, not a locked template.
ScaleShield in front
WAF and bot protection filter traffic before it reaches your publication, and free TLS covers your domain, wildcard certificates included.
Pricing
One price ladder. Ghost fits on Starter.
No per-seat charges, no metered API calls, no usage surprises — a fixed GBP price that covers hosting, email, DNS and backups.
Starter
or £86/yr — save 20%
Recommended for Ghost
One Ghost publication on your own domain, with email, DNS and daily backups included.
- 1 hosted site — WordPress, PHP, Ghost, git apps & more
- AI Website Builder — 3 projects, publish 1 on your domain
- 60K AI tokens per day
- Custom domain + free SSL
- Email hosting (mailboxes, webmail, spam filtering)
- DNS hosting & SFTP access
- Daily backups with one-click restore
- Uptime monitoring with alerts
Business
or £182/yr — save 20%
Up to 3 sites plus full-stack AI apps — shop, bookings, CMS.
- 3 hosted sites — any type, incl. WooCommerce & Magento
- Full-stack AI apps — online shop, bookings, CMS & more
- Real database + admin panel on AI-built sites
- Stripe checkout on your AI-built shop (your own keys)
- AI Website Builder — 5 projects, publish 3
- 150K AI tokens per day
- Managed PostgreSQL & Redis add-ons
- Site cloning, phpMyAdmin, WP-CLI
- Everything in Starter included
Pro
or £374/yr — save 20%
For freelancers and power users — 10 sites, highest AI allowance.
- 10 hosted sites
- Dedicated MySQL database per site (included)
- AI Website Builder — 20 projects, publish 10
- 500K AI tokens per day
- Git deploys with PR preview environments
- WireGuard private networking
- Priority support
- Everything in Business included
There is also a Free plan (AI Website Builder only, no card needed) and an Agency plan for 25 sites with team roles.
Compare all five plans on the pricing page — every plan is a fixed GBP price with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Included on every plan
FAQ
Ghost hosting questions, answered straight
Do I have to install Ghost myself?
No. Ghost on G7Cloud is a managed one-click platform: pick Ghost in the dashboard and we provision the dedicated container, the database and your admin credentials. You log into the /ghost admin panel and write. The infrastructure — TLS, backups, monitoring, edge security — is handled for you.
How is this different from Ghost(Pro)?
Ghost(Pro) is the Ghost Foundation’s own hosted service. On G7Cloud you run the same open-source Ghost on a dedicated container at a fixed GBP price — and the same plan also covers email hosting, DNS, and any other sites your allowance includes. Your content lives in your own database and you can export it whenever you want.
Can I charge for subscriptions?
Yes. Ghost’s membership system connects to your own Stripe account, so subscription revenue goes directly to you. G7Cloud takes no cut of your revenue — you pay a flat monthly hosting price and nothing per subscriber.
Do newsletters send out of the box?
Ghost delivers bulk newsletters through Mailgun — you connect your own Mailgun key in Ghost’s settings, which takes a few minutes. Separately, your G7Cloud plan includes real email hosting (mailboxes, webmail, IMAP/SMTP), so [email protected] works properly too.
Which plan do I need for a Ghost blog?
Starter (£9/mo) runs one Ghost site on your own domain and includes email hosting, DNS, SFTP and daily backups. Business (£19/mo) covers three hosted sites — useful if you want a Ghost publication plus other sites on one bill.
Can you move my existing blog to Ghost on G7Cloud?
Yes — migration is free and assisted. Our team does the move with you: we bring your content across (from self-hosted Ghost, Ghost(Pro) exports or WordPress), you preview the result, and nothing cuts over until you approve it.
Building a bigger stack?
Ghost is one of five self-hostable content and commerce platforms we run — alongside 14 git-deployable frameworks.
Headless CMS hosting
Ghost, Strapi, Directus, Payload and Medusa compared honestly — which one fits your project, and how each runs here.
App hosting
Git push-to-deploy for Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Remix and more — Node 18, 20 and 22, PR previews, live build logs.
Managed WordPress hosting
Prefer the classic route? Managed WordPress on the same containers, with the same backups and ScaleShield protection.
Other platforms we run the same way:
Further reading: how slow websites kill conversions.