The Substack Trap
Substack is great if you want to be a tenant in someone else's digital housing project. It’s "easy," sure. But so is staying in a hotel indefinitely until they decide to change the locks or hike the "platform tax."
If your entire business model depends on a single company’s benevolent algorithm or their willingness to let you export your list, you aren't an entrepreneur. You’re an unpaid content intern for a VC-backed silo.
Why Ghost 6 Wins
Ghost 6 isn't just a CMS; it's a declaration of independence. It gives you the full stack—newsletters, memberships, and a world-class editor—without the platform risk. But Ghost is famously resource-heavy if you run it on the garbage-tier "Micro" instances the big clouds try to upsell you on.
At Leapjuice, we don't do "micro." We do "absolute unit."
The Performance Gap
Running Ghost on Leapjuice means you aren't just getting a blog; you're getting a publishing tank.
- Zen 5 Turin Muscle: Ghost’s Node.js backend thrives on single-core clock speeds. We're serving it via AMD Zen 5 Turin architecture. Your admin panel won't just be snappy; it’ll feel like it’s predicting your next click.
- 5,000 IOPS Standard: The biggest bottleneck for Ghost is image processing and database lookups. Our 5,000 IOPS baseline ensures that even when you’re blasting a newsletter to 100k people, your site stays responsive.
- Cloudflare Enterprise Edge: We wrap every Ghost instance in Cloudflare Enterprise. This isn't the free tier. This is the "beat the speed of light" tier. Global caching, sub-10ms latency, and WAF protection that laughs at bot nets.
- GCP Backbone: Your mail delivery and media uploads travel over the GCP Backbone. Zero-hop reliability. No legacy internet congestion.
Stop Renting Your Audience
The "Substack Ghetto" wants you to think that complexity is the enemy. It's not. Subordination is the enemy.
With Ghost on Leapjuice, you get the simplicity of a SaaS but the raw power of your own dedicated silicon. Ownership isn't just a "feature." It's the only thing that actually matters when the platform wars start.
Fire your landlord. Host yourself.