Running Ghost blog with no external cloud — someone tested it
Ghost is a content management system for blogs and newsletters, similar to but focused on writing rather than plugins. Version 6.0 added a built-in visitor feature and support for , which lets Ghost connect with decentralized s. However, the feature is designed to send data to Tinybird, an external cloud service, which is a problem for anyone who wants to keep everything on their own server.
One user set out to find whether it is possible to replace Tinybird with a backend instead, and documented the full experiment — what was tried and whether it worked — in a detailed blog post. This is a practical reference for anyone running Ghost on a like a Mac mini and wanting full data independence.
Key points
- Ghost 6.0 added built-in , but it sends data to an external cloud service called Tinybird by default.
- A self-hoster tested whether the backend can be run locally without Tinybird.
- Ghost 6.0 also added support, enabling connection to decentralized s.
- The full experiment and results are documented in a public blog post.