Why not stay on Ghost?

morgan-vps was dropped, and the cost of bringing it back vs. moving to a free static stack favored the static stack. Astro gives us better SEO defaults, AI crawler support, and zero recurring infra cost.

How long did the migration take?

A single afternoon for the scaffold + CI + deploy. Content migration is incremental as posts get rewritten in MDX.

Why we replaced Ghost with Astro + Cloudflare Pages

Field notes from migrating off a hosted CMS to a static site — the trade-offs, the wins, what broke.

May 7, 2026 · INFINITX

morgan-vps hosted our Ghost CMS. The server got dropped. We had a choice: rebuild the VPS and the Ghost install, or move to a free static stack.

We moved.

Astro on Cloudflare Pages costs $0/mo, builds in seconds, ships clean SEO out of the box, and lets us put MDX (markdown + components) directly in the repo. Newsletter goes through beehiiv (free). Indexing fans out via Bing IndexNow + Google Search Console. The whole thing lives in Trejon-888/infinitxai-site.

This post is itself rendered by the new stack. If you’re reading it, the migration worked.

FAQ

Why not stay on Ghost?: morgan-vps was dropped, and the cost of bringing it back vs. moving to a free static stack favored the static stack. Astro gives us better SEO defaults, AI crawler support, and zero recurring infra cost.
How long did the migration take?: A single afternoon for the scaffold + CI + deploy. Content migration is incremental as posts get rewritten in MDX.

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