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The easiest way to get a production instance deployed is with our officialGhost(Pro) 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 ofhow much time it saves — 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 softwareand getting a great service!

If you want to run your own instance of Ghost, in most cases the best way is to use ourCLI tool

npm install ghost-cli -g

Then, if installing locally add thelocal flag to get up and running in under a minute -Local install docs

ghost install local

or on a server run the full install, including automatic SSL setup using LetsEncrypt -Production install docs

ghost install

Check out ourofficial documentation for more information about ourrecommended hosting stack & properlyupgrading Ghost, plus everything you need to develop your own Ghostthemes or work withour API.

For anyone wishing to contribute to Ghost or to hack/customize core files we recommend following our full development setup guides:Contributor guide •Developer setup

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