How did I host my own blog Ghost CMS + AWS

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:39:00 +0000

After exploring Hashnode, Dev.to, and Medium, I decided to self-host my blog, not for performance, but for control. Here’s how I did it with AWS, Ghost, and a minimal budget.

🧰 TL;DR: Self-hosted my Ghost blog on AWS EC2 (t2.micro) using a custom Nginx setup with /blog routed. Faced installation challenges due to CPU limits, solved it with a t2.large temp instance.

How It All Started

It all started when I was in college and watched a video by Quincy Larson, creator of FreeCodeCamp, about why developers must have a blog. So I started geekaid.in. After writing on it for a while, I dropped it a year ago as it stopped aligning with what I originally thought of.

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How did I host my own blog Ghost CMS + AWS