“You have to use Substack”

Like, no.

https://ghost.org/vs/substack/

Like I said in the other community: hosted on substack.

Meh, Medium is really just a cash grabbing machine by now, used to be good, but now I’m happy I self-hosted my ghost-blog since the beginning.

Ghost also does offer Ghost Pro, which is a managed service from them. (They are headquartered in Singapore though)
However, otherwise there are a ton of third parties that offer to manage a ghost blog instance for you for little pay.

• https://ghost.org/pricing/
• https://getmidnight.com/
• https://www.magicpages.co/#pricing

Nevertheless, an article with good intentions, 90% is better than 0%.
I like it, and not everyone might like Ghost or existing alternatives, it’s just the one I settled on.