• CyberChef: for converting between data encodings for hackathons / CTFs etc. https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
• grep.app: search through over half million public git repos. https://grep.app/
• ngrok: public URLs for testing local code. https://ngrok.com/

Other options, I considered were:

• Managed Ghost on ghost.org: $9/mon.
• Ghost on Digital Ocean: https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/ghost (would have to pay for the droplet)
• hashnode: Not a ghost blog, but pretty good feature-wise and free.

On the Digital Press end, I first created a blog site with their default domain (digitalpress.blog). To edit it, add /ghost to the domain. You can remove the default posts and pages by removing the profile for user "ghost".

More details on the steps involved are listed below (Ref: https://ghost.org/help/the-importer/)

• From the original blog (hoopedondata.com), go to https://www.hoopedondata.com/ghost/#/settings/labs
• Export your content packs everything into a single json file and downloads it to your local storage.
• From the settings in your new location (e.g. https://hoopedondata.digitalpress.blog/ghost/#/settings/labs): Import Content -> Choose File.
• This imports all posts (published and drafts).

To point the blog to a custom domain, I ended up choosing CloudFlare as a free DNS provider. I opted out of GoDaddy's DNS management. The Cloudflare settings are shown below:

Note also that SSL/TLS encryption mode should be set to Full.

AWS Configuration:

• Use Bitnami Ghost AMI (free) from AWS Marketplace while creating your EC2 instance.
• Set up Elastic IP to get a public IP and point your IP to your domain using Route 53 as described here. (the domain registrar for HoopedOnData is GoDaddy)
• Login to your EC2 instance via ssh and obtain initial account password for Ghost admin user (user@example.com)

sudo cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_credentials

• Next update the site for https access as described here:

sudo /opt/bitnami/configure_app_domain --domain hoopedondata.com
sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool
# At the prompt, enter: hoopedondata.com www.hoopedondata.com 

Ghost Configuration:

• Refer to the latest Ghost docs.
• Login to https://www.hoopedondata.com/ghost/ using the initial set of credentials
• Configure Ghost settings (General) and replace the default admin user with your profile.
• Remove profile for "Ghost" user. This also removes the default posts.
• Remove the banner by running the following command from the shell:

sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/ghost/bnconfig.disabled --disable_banner 1

Finally, thanks to this blog for the inspiration to set up a blog using Ghost.