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Ghost editor vs WordPress dashboard side by side comparison for technical blogging

Ghost vs WordPress in 2026: Which Is Better for Technical Blogs?

Every technical blogger eventually faces this decision: Ghost or WordPress? WordPress powers 43% of the internet and has a plugin for everything. Ghost is the lean, fast alternative that was literally built for publishing. Both can be self-hosted. Both are open source. Both will run a perfectly good technical blog.

Flat illustration of an isometric server rack with a hexagonal security shield and terminal window, representing self-hosting a blog on a Hetzner VPS

How I Built byte-guard.net from Scratch on a Hetzner VPS

I wanted a security blog that I fully controlled — no managed platforms, no vendor lock-in, just a VPS and a stack I could understand end to end. This is how I built byte-guard.net from scratch on a Hetzner cloud server using Ghost, Nginx Proxy Manager, and Uptime Kuma, all