Services
Overview
Ghost is a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online publication.
Ghost Stack provides a one-click install solution for scalable Ghost. The whole deployment with this stack takes about 5-10 minutes.
How to deploy a stack
- Click Deploy stack
- Sign in or create an account
- Choose a provider (how to add a cloud provider) and a region or an existing host (how to add own host to D2C) in Select existing hosts menu
- Fill in necessary fields (if they are, e.g. link to your repository)
- Click Create hosts and services
Minimal recommended configuration
- 1 hosts with 1GB RAM
Your administration panel
By default, you’ll get a domain for your Ghost blog like [servicename]-[www].[accountID].[at].d2c.io.
Administration panel is available at [domain]/admin
Configuring custom domain and getting free TLS certificates
You can add your domains with free Let’s Encrypt certificates using the following instruction:
- Open an NGINX service
- click “Edit settings”
- find “Configure services” block
- click Generate new config, choose HTTPS, Proxy mode and click Generate
- choose Own domains and specify domains and/or subdomains at domains field
- click Update service
Checking logs of containers (php, nginx, etc.)
You can check live logs at the page of a container. Please, follow the instructions from the Help Center. You may also find information about D2C logs in the documentation.
How to scale
How to scale
To scale a Ghost service, you need to scale Docker service (name “ghost” by default in the stack) and follow the next steps:
- Open a Docker service
- Click Scale
- Choose hosts you want to use for new Docker containers
- Click Scale service
To scale a host:
- Open a host page
- Find Instance type block
- Choose a configuration
- Click Resize
After deploying
You can:
- Create scheduled backups of your database to different storage providers
- Add your custom domains and get free TLS certificate by Let’s Encrypt
- Check online logs and metrics
- Update your apps using Webhooks
- Scale your app(s) and host(s)
- Migrate containers to other hosts
- Add load balancer (HAProxy) in two clicks