Pros

Right away Ghost wins this category, because you don’t really have any ability to customize your Medium blog.

For a developer Ghost is perfect. You can change anything you want. As a non-developer though, you’re quite limited.

I really expected Ghost to have more design fu...

• The fonts look nicer. (Actually the font on Medium is beautiful and very hard to beat).
• The editor is faster. The editor that pops up to make something bold or a title, is just half a second faster on Medium.

I feel like I should address this because Wordpress is mostly the go-to solution for building your own blog.

I considered Wordpress, but my main priority was that my blog should be blazing fast.

I come from an eCommerce development background so slow loading speed is a hug...

• There’s no theme customizer. I expected to see a lot more under the design tab. Like at least a few options for changing the layout.
• The setup on digital ocean was a bit difficult even for me as a front-end developer, because I don’t know anything about setting up servers. (That bei...

If you’re trying to be successful on Medium, you have to write content that appeals to paying Medium members. Whereas if you’re writing articles that will do well on Google then it might be best to use your own blog.