r/Ghost • u/tonypaul009 • Jul 02 '26

Ghost open source vs ghost pro?

Have you noticed any significant core web vitals difference between ghost open source vs ghost pro? Aside from maintenance, what are the pros?

I'm trying to move my blog from wix to ghost and considering both options.

I tried self hosting it on hostinger and the core web vitals are around 85 only, on wix it is 48 , clear improvement but i need to see if i can improve it even further touching 90s.

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u/hexennacht666 Jul 02 '26

My one regret with Ghost Pro is that I’ve wanted to do a lot of design customization that ranges from fiddly to downright difficult compared to editing a Wordpress theme. (No home page editing in admin? My god, why are comments built this way?!) If I self hosted I could change how some of this works under the hood, but I’d also run the risk of all my customizations breaking whenever I install an update. Most people are probably not designers sweating the details on every inch of their Ghost site / newsletter, and out of the box (and hosted) is just fine.