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I just realised there's a (sort of) official way to install Ghost on HelioHost! I've also noticed some other people using it here. Just wondering what your impressions were? I don't mean this to be a "help" thread, so feel free to share anything about the experience. Does it load up reasonably quickly? Any risk of overloading the server (à la Wordpress)? I set up a sort of "guerilla Ghost" before I realised it could be run here: software on Heroku, database on HelioHost, and the public-facing website hosted on Netlify via Gridsome (the static site generator). So Ghost is used as the backend, with all the dashboard and integrations, and the final site is rendered as a static site by Gridsome. Now that Ghost 3 is out, along with it's "memberships" feature, I'm wondering whether to make the switch and install everything here. At least, until I save up for a VPS. I heard that the "app" (or whatever it's called) gets powered down after 5 minutes and takes time to start up again: is that a reasonable delay, or a bad idea? The situation is similar with Heroku free hosting, and it doesn't take noticeably longer for the first load (especially for me, with my bad internet connection ). The only problem is when trying to access the JSON API: I get a "Ghost is still starting, please wait..." message in the JSON, which means I have to make sure the server's running before I make any API calls. [Edit: I hope this is the right forum to post this! Should it have gone into "General Discussion > Website Management and Coding" instead? ]