About
A publishing platform for blogs, newsletters and member sites. Write in a clean editor, send posts by e-mail, take paid subscriptions.
Notes
Self-hosted Ghost publishing platform with a dedicated MySQL 8 sidecar. The agent generates the database password on first install and stores it locally on the device — Obacht never sees it.
Each instance is a fully self-contained bundle: its own Docker network, its own data volumes, its own secrets. Two ghost instances on the same Pi never see each other.
Alternative to: Medium, Substack
Facts
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Source
- Official
- Runtime
- Several containers
- Devices
- Pi · Linux · Mac
- Min. RAM
- 768 MB
- Project
- ghost.org
Install
How to run Ghost (MySQL bundle) yourself
- 01
Connect a device
A Raspberry Pi, a Linux machine or a Mac that is on anyway.
- 02
Install it
One click in your Obacht account. Your device checks the signature before anything runs.
- 03
Open it from anywhere
It gets a web address under your-name.obacht.space, with HTTPS. Add your own domain if you have one.
Open-source contribution
Forwarded
A fixed amount per install goes to Ghost, forwarded via GitHub Sponsors.
Run it on your own hardware.
Obacht is in a closed pilot phase. Put yourself on the list. We let people in a few at a time, so it can take a while.