Fly.io is yet another Platform as a Service, you can think of it as a serverless and multi-regional Heroku.
It also offers a generous free plan:
In practice, this is more than enough for hosting a low-traffic Ghost blog.
To get started, you need to install Fly's command line tool first, then create an account and log in with the CLI:
flyctl auth login
Create a new folder for this project:
mkdir my-blog
cd my-blog
Then create a fly.toml
with the following contents:
app = "ghost-blog"
kill_signal = "SIGINT"
kill_timeout = 5
processes = []
[build]
image = "ghost:4-alpine"
[mounts]
source="ghost-blog"
destination="/var/lib/ghost/content"
[env]
url="https://ghost-blog.fly.dev"
[experimental]
allowed_public_ports = []
auto_rollback = true
[[services]]
http_checks = []
internal_port = 2368
processes = ["app"]
protocol = "tcp"
script_checks = []
[services.concurrency]
hard_limit = 25
soft_limit = 20
type = "connections"
[[services.ports]]
handlers = ["http"]
port = 80
[[services.ports]]
handlers = ["tls", "http"]
port = 443
[[services.tcp_checks]]
grace_period = "1s"
interval = "15s"
restart_limit = 0
timeout = "2s"
Be sure to replace ghost-blog
with a custom app name, try to make it unique because it's also used as the subdomain.
After that you need to create a persistent volume to store Ghost contents such as images, themes and the SQLite database:
fly volumes create ghost-blog --size 1
The [mounts]
source
section defines the name of the persistent volume you wanna bind this app to, here I have set it to ghost-blog
, the one created by the above command.
Now everything is ready, you can run fly deploy
to deploy this website. When it's successfully deployed, you can visit ghost-blog.fly.dev/ghost (or your custom app name) to create an admin user.
To add a custom domain to your blog, go to your Fly dashboard:
Make sure to update the url
in fly.toml
to your custom domain and re-deploy it.