Tor-Only Ghost Blog VPS
Ghost is a modern publishing platform with a clean editor UX, Markdown support, and native subscriber management. Running Ghost on a Tor-only onion makes it the most user-friendly authoring tool available for hidden-service publishers who do not want to manage Jekyll or Hugo. AnubizHost provides VPS with Ghost preconfigured to bind only to the local Tor unix socket.
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Ghost as an Onion Application
Ghost runs as a Node.js application. Bind it to 127.0.0.1:2368 and have Tor's HiddenServicePort map the onion port to it. Use SQLite as the database to keep the deployment minimal; switch to MySQL only if you need multi-author concurrency.
Hardening Ghost
Disable email integration unless you have a Tor-routed SMTP. Disable analytics. Strip the default theme's external CDN references. Bind Ghost only to localhost. Run as a non-root user with restricted filesystem permissions.
Subscriber Management
Ghost's subscriber features require email delivery for confirmations. For onion-only deployments, route Ghost's mail through a Tor-resolvable SMTP (postfix on the same VPS with mail-over-Tor relay, or a sister onion mail server).
Crypto Billing
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Related: Tor-only static, Jekyll onion, Hugo onion, WordPress onion, Tor hosting parent.
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