Better alternatives to the big publishing platforms

Substack takes a cut of your revenue. Wix and Squarespace lock your content into their builder. Beehiiv and Medium own your audience. These guides compare the leading blogging, newsletter and website-builder alternatives — on features, monetisation, data ownership and price — so you can pick a platform you actually control. Most of them point to the same answer: the open-source Ghost CMS, which you can run yourself or have us host for you.