FREE + OPEN SOURCE v0.1 · Ghost first

Keep your site.
Cut the hosting bill.

Managed hosting bundles the software and the work.
Your agent can help you unbundle both.

Calculate my savings ↗

Source included · MIT licensed · Built for agents and humans

$killhostingbill-ghost

01 / DO THE MATH

Find out how much you're
overpaying for hosting.

Start with your real bill. See what replacing the bundle could cost.

Your current setup

Ghost estimate

Hosting bill / month ($)Use your actual bill, including paid add-ons.Pageviews / monthNewsletter subscribersNewsletters / monthFull backup size (GB)Database, content, media and required analytics.Web analytics

Adjust assumptions and additional costs +

VPS allowance / month ($)Starts from OVHcloud US. Confirm checkout and renewal.Agent / maintenance / month ($)$5 is an editable planning allowance, not a quote.Other paid services / month ($)Editor, integrations, monitoring and external analytics.One-time migration costs ($)Transactional emails / monthPeak transactional emails / dayRetained full backup copiesR2 free storage still available (GB)Account-wide allowance. Reduce for other projects.Analytics API requests / dayNot pageviews. Default is illustrative.

USD estimates, before tax. Rates checked October 14, 2026. No website access or migration happens here.

YOUR POTENTIAL SAVINGS

$25.46/ mo

less in recurring costs

Current hosting$35.00

Estimated unbundled cost$9.54

VPS origin$4.54

Newsletter + transactional email$0.00

Off-server backup storage$0.00

Native web analytics$0.00

Agent / maintenance allowance$5.00

Other services$0.00

First-year net savings$305.52

Migration break-evenNo setup cost

Looks promising. Let your agent verify the costs and feature parity before you move.

How this estimate works

This is a planning estimate, not a quote or a site audit. Traffic flags capacity review rather than magically sizing a server. Email uses monthly volume and the peak campaign day. Backups multiply full archive size by retained copies.

Native analytics depends on API requests, not pageviews. Confirm request usage and storage before assuming a free plan.
Free email assumes no more than 100 total sends on any day. Multiple campaigns on one day can exceed it.
Taxes, renewal prices, agent usage and extra integrations must be confirmed. Edit the allowances below.

Mailgun: free up to 100 sends/day, otherwise Basic starts at $15/month for 10,000 sends; this model uses its starting overage rate. Tinybird: free up to 1,000 requests/day and 10 GB, Developer starts at $49/month. R2: storage-only estimate at $0.015/GB-month after available free storage, rounded to billable GB. Higher-volume email or analytics may need a different plan.

Backups may need more space during rotation. Mail/analytics storage and operation limits need verification. Domain renewals that remain unchanged cancel out. Human support and an uptime SLA aren't included. Nonrefundable prepaid hosting can delay cash savings.

OVHcloud US VPS ↗Mailgun ↗Tinybird ↗Cloudflare R2 ↗

02 / HAND THE WORK TO YOUR AGENT

A skill. A plan.
A smaller bill, if it makes sense.

Assess the savings

Inventory your site and compare the complete costs. Moving is optional.

Keep what matters

Plan the migration, check feature parity, and rehearse recovery before switching.

Plan the upkeep

Set up backups, monitoring and bounded updates, with agent oversight.

A SMALL OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT

Start with Ghost.
Keep the scope honest.

This started with moving one small Ghost blog off managed hosting. The lessons are now a skill you can inspect, adapt, and hand to your own agent.

v0.1 is a draft. Its savings calculator is tested. The reusable migration workflow still needs an independent test-site rehearsal. WordPress is a possible next chapter.

Read the skill before downloading ↗

killhostingbill-ghost/

├── SKILL.md
├── scripts/
│   └── assess_savings.py
├── references/
│   ├── feature-parity.md
│   └── maintenance.md
└── LICENSE

Human-readable instructions.
Deterministic tools where they help.

Keep your site.Cut the hosting bill.

Find out how much you'reoverpaying for hosting.