Why these together

Marketing self-hosting is mostly about retaining first-party data — emails, attribution, form responses — without piping them through Mailchimp + HubSpot + Google Analytics + Typeform. Ghost is the content+blog surface; Plausible measures what gets read; Formbricks captures structured intent on landing pages; Listmonk is the bulk newsletter sender; Mautic is the heavier automation tool for drip campaigns and lead-scoring once Listmonk's flat broadcasts aren't enough. The integration sketch: Ghost webhooks fire on new subscribers, hand off to Listmonk + Mautic; Formbricks responses post to Mautic for lead enrichment; Plausible custom events feed back into a marketing dashboard. Stack scales comfortably to ~50k contacts on $20-30 VPS; past that, Mautic wants its own box.