From Zero to Blog Hero: Hosting your own blog for free with Ghost and GitHub Pages

I often get the question: how do you manage your blog? Do you pay anything for hosting your blog? Do you have some sort of markdown interpreter? How about Search Engine Optimizations, can your blog posts be found online using Google? The short respective answers: Completely managed through a self-hosted Ghost instance, completely free, with rich editor and out of the box search engine optimizations. So, how does it work? Let's start with a list of requirements: * Running Ghost locally via Doc »