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The easiest way to get a production instance deployed is with our official **[Ghost(Pro)](https://ghost.org/pricing/)** managed service. It takes about 2 minutes to launch a new site with worldwide CDN, backups, security and maintenance all done for you. For most people this ends up being the best value option because of [how much time it saves](https://ghost.org/docs/hosting/) — and 100% of revenue goes to the Ghost Foundation; funding the maintenance and further development of the project itself. So you’ll be supporting open source software *and* getting a great service! # Quickstart install If you want to run your own instance of Ghost, in most cases the best way is to use our **CLI tool** ``` npm install ghost-cli -g ``` Then, if installing locally add the `local` flag to get up and running in under a minute - [Local install docs](https://ghost.org/docs/install/local/) ``` ghost install local ``` or on a server run the full install, including automatic SSL setup using LetsEncrypt - [Production install docs](https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/) ``` ghost install ``` Check out our [official documentation](https://ghost.org/docs/) for more information about our [recommended hosting stack](https://ghost.org/docs/hosting/) & properly [upgrading Ghost](https://ghost.org/docs/update/), plus everything you need to develop your own Ghost [themes](https://ghost.org/docs/themes/) or work with [our API](https://ghost.org/docs/content-api/). ### Contributors & advanced developers For anyone wishing to contribute to Ghost or to hack/customize core files we recommend following our full development setup guides: [Contributor guide](https://ghost.org/docs/contributing/) • [Developer setup](https://ghost.org/docs/install/source/) # Ghost sponsors We'd like to extend big thanks to our sponsors and partners who make Ghost possible. If you're interested in sponsoring Ghost and supporting the project, please check out our profile on [GitHub sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/TryGhost) :heart: **[DigitalOcean](https://m.do.co/c/9ff29836d717)** • **[Fastly](https://www.fastly.com/)** # Getting help You can find answers to a huge variety of questions, along with a large community of helpful developers over on the [Ghost forum](https://forum.ghost.org/) - replies are generally very quick. **Ghost(Pro)** customers also have access to 24/7 email support. To stay up to date with all the latest news and product updates, make sure you [subscribe to our blog](https://ghost.org/blog/) — or you can always follow us [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Ghost), if you prefer your updates bite-sized and facetious. :saxophone::turtle: # Copyright & license Copyright (c) 2013-2023 Ghost Foundation - Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE). Ghost and the Ghost Logo are trademarks of Ghost Foundation Ltd. Please see our [trademark policy](https://ghost.org/trademark/) for info on acceptable usage.

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apostrophe	4,260	115	4.2.1	5 days ago	11 years ago
ghost	45,765	135	5.82.6	a day ago	13 years ago
keystone	8,866	116	4.2.1	5 years ago	11 years ago
loopback	13,241	16	3.28.0	3 years ago	11 years ago
payload	19,745	324	2.15.0	a day ago	9 years ago

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