First Post - Setting Up Ghost

I've been wanting to blog for a while, so tonight I figured I'd finally sit down and do it.

I started with a quick google, "open source blog", and found Ghost. Reading about it quickly it seemed a bit overkill for what I wanted, but I could see where it might be useful if I actually had a decent blog that people read.

Setup was a breeze, I already have a VPS that I host a minecraft server on so I just ran the docker compose install and setup a new DNS record. Took probably less than 5 minutes. Check it out here: https://docs.ghost.org/install/docker.

I like the idea behind the architecture, it's simple and configurable. It's built as an open source product and allows you to connect various databases and backend storage options, which is something I really like. I want to use this blog to host photos so storing those in cheap cloud storage was something I was already interested in.

Using it for all of 5 minutes so far the interfaces are really clean and flow well. There's a themeing engine that I'm excited to look into and design what I have in my head for this blog in the long run.

One of the things I'm hoping to gain out of this is being able to separate categories of posts, some engineering focused, some hobby and story of my life centered, but also host a photography blog as I progress in my studies of photography. I have some specific ideas on how I want the photo interfaces to work, so we'll see if I can make that happen.

I'll have to dig in a bit more to the platform and see what I can do with it, but for now I'm happy to check this off my list and move on towards actually blogging.

Cheers