Start a Blog with Ghost CMS and Digital Ocean for Only $5 a Month!

Digital Ocean is a developers webhost. Pay as you go, high quality technology powering your website and more cost effective than a shared webhost (but more techy) ➡ https://davidutke.com/DigitalOcean We will also be using Namecheap as our domain registrar https://davidutke.com/namecheap In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to setup a Ghost powered website and blog using Digital Ocean. The advantage of self hosting is that it is less expensive overall, but more technical and you have to update everything yourself. By the end of this tutorial video on how to install Ghost, you'll have your very own website and blog that is ready to collect emails and can manage subscriptions. This way is a bit more technical so if you want a done for you solution where everything is setup for you correctly then checkout my previous video on Ghost dot org. ►Watch my tutorial on how to use the hosted version of Ghost: https://youtu.be/YVakhK8UOWs ►Checkout the hosted version of Ghost here: https://davidutke.com/ghost ▬▬▬ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 01:07 Domains and hosting 03:30 Create a Ghost Droplet 06:23 Add a domain name 07:57 Install Ghost CMS 11:42 Ghost Overview 15:53 Blogging on Ghost 19:39 Mailgun setup 25:51 Enable paid subscriptions 27:27 Subscribe! DISCLAIMER: This video and description contain affiliate links when possible, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I may receive a small commission. I only recommend products and services I actually use. Everything in this video is based on information acquired from years of online web development experience. Please do your own research before making any important decisions. You and only you are responsible for any and all digital marketing decisions you make. Thank you for watching and subscribe!