No database anywhere in the stack: Grav, the leading flat-file CMS, builds every page from a folder of Markdown and YAML on PHP, Symfony components, Twig templating, and Doctrine caching. That architecture is the whole argument: content is Git-versionable, rsync-able, and lock-in-free; pages render in well under 100ms without database round-trips; and backup means copying a directory. Content authors write Markdown (or plain HTML), configure with readable YAML, and define custom page structures via blueprint files that generate editing forms automatically. The optional Admin panel adds a polished editing layer: dashboard with site activity, page management with a syntax-highlighted editor and live preview, drag-and-drop media uploads, one-click plugin/theme updates, and normal/expert modes for form-based or raw YAML editing. The ecosystem runs deep - hundreds of open-source plugins and themes installed through the GPM package manager, with an event-hook architecture that gives plugins full control over the request lifecycle, and downloadable skeletons providing entire pre-built sites. Grav 2.0 modernizes the stack (PHP 8.3+, Symfony 7, Twig 3) and adds a first-party REST API, an MCP server for AI agents, and a SvelteKit single-page admin with real-time collaborative editing. Ideal for docs, blogs, and marketing sites. MIT-licensed.

Documentation deserves better than a database nobody wants to maintain. Typemill is an open-source flat-file CMS for informational websites, manuals, knowledge bases, and handbooks: content lives as Markdown files in folders, so a site can be copied, versioned, backed up, and moved with ordinary file tools and no database server anywhere in the stack. Authors get a visual block editor for nontechnical writing and a raw Markdown editor when precision matters, with a navigation tree, drag-and-drop structure, media library, page metadata, and publish states in one workspace. The same source then publishes three ways: as a themed website, as a printable PDF manual, or as an EPUB eBook through the eBook studio, making single-source publishing real for teams tired of maintaining docs, PDFs, and handbooks as three diverging copies. Themes are built from HTML and Twig; plugins add search, analytics, diagrams, math, and integrations; and an optional AI assistant interface connects writing help to the editor. User management, restricted pages, redirects, and a REST API cover the operational side, and the whole application is small enough to run comfortably on modest shared-style hosting or a tiny server while still feeling instant. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Roughly 43% of all websites and over 60% of the CMS market run on WordPress - the GPL-licensed platform that scales from a personal blog to publishing operations and WooCommerce stores. The Gutenberg block editor composes pages from reusable blocks, and full site editing extends block control to headers, footers, and templates; tens of thousands of plugins and themes cover essentially every capability a site might need, from SEO and caching to membership and e-commerce. WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" marks the platform's biggest structural update since Gutenberg itself: a React-based DataViews admin replaces the legacy list tables with instant filtering, a provider-agnostic AI Client API ships with connectors for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, media processing moves into the browser via WebAssembly, and a universal Font Library manages typography across block, hybrid, and classic themes with local hosting for GDPR compliance. New Breadcrumbs, Icons, and lightbox Gallery blocks reduce plugin dependence, and server-side PHP block registration simplifies development. The REST API and WP-CLI make it automatable end to end. Self-hosting is what WordPress was designed for: your content, database, plugin choices, and upgrade schedule stay entirely under your control, free of wordpress.com plan limits.

WordPress without Gutenberg: ClassicPress, the community-led fork, keeps the TinyMCE classic editor as the default and strips the block editor and Full Site Editing out of core entirely. The result is roughly half WordPress's size - obsolete libraries like jQueryUI, Thickbox, and Flash support are gone, replaced by native HTML5 elements and modern alternatives like SortableJS - which translates to a measurably faster admin and a leaner attack surface. Forked from WordPress 6.2, it remains compatible with the vast plugin and theme ecosystem targeting that lineage (anything not requiring blocks generally works, helped by a blocks-compatibility mode), and the PHP-first WordPress API developers have used for over a decade works unchanged - no React required to extend your CMS. The fork adds its own improvements: built-in media categories and tags with bulk editing, revision management that lets you prune database bloat, native HTML5 dialogs for accessible touch-friendly menus, and recent releases bring APCu object-cache support, vanilla-JS core widgets, and performant translations. Governance is democratic and community-driven rather than corporate. For content sites, business sites, and blogs where the classic editing workflow is the feature, ClassicPress is stability as a philosophy.

FlecBlog is a complete blogging system for people who want their own corner of the web to look considered, not cobbled together. Readers get a fast public site with server-rendered pages that search engines can actually read, per-article sharing cards, a sitemap that updates itself, and a feed for subscribers who still use readers. Writers get a separate admin console with a Markdown editor that previews as you type, syncs scrolling between the panes, uploads a pasted image without a detour, and estimates reading time while counting words. Posts can carry custom blocks like callouts, tabs, collapsible panels, link cards, and photo walls, so tutorials and essays do not all flatten into the same shape. The dashboard turns your archive into charts: visit trends by day or month, category breakdowns, a tag cloud, and a contribution calendar of your writing streak. Comments support guests and signed-in readers with nested replies and emoji, friend links handle the blogroll exchange, and short moments publish the small updates that are not full articles. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Most blogging platforms demand a database server, a cache layer, and a healthy slice of RAM before you publish a single sentence; Bloglite runs a complete personal microblog in a few megabytes of memory. You write and edit posts directly in the web interface from a phone or a desktop browser, see the rendered result within seconds, and skip the commit, build, and deploy cycle that static site generators impose on every small update. Posts are written in Markdown with built-in syntax highlighting for code and rendered LaTeX for math expressions, so technical notes, recipes, snippets, and reading highlights all sit comfortably in the same public notebook. Upload images and files to embed them in posts, follow RSS feeds from inside the service, and retrieve anything later through the built-in search or an external search engine. Share posts through short numeric links or longer descriptive slug URLs, and keep ownership of everything: posts live in one SQLite database on your server, and automatic backups export the whole site to plain text files that can be downloaded through the API and committed to a Git repository on a schedule. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With over 5,100 GitHub stars and a proven track record powering more than 550,000 blogs on the Write.as hosted platform since 2018, WriteFreely strips blogging down to its essential purpose — writing — by removing news feeds, notifications, likes, and engagement metrics that distract from the creative process. The Go binary deploys on any platform as a single executable with SQLite for zero-dependency setups or MySQL and MariaDB for larger installations, consuming minimal system resources and running comfortably on hardware as small as a Raspberry Pi. The auto-saving Markdown editor provides a clean writing environment with instant draft preservation, while published posts render with typography-focused CSS that puts content front and center for readers. ActivityPub federation connects every blog to the fediverse, allowing Mastodon, Pleroma, and other ActivityPub platform users to follow blogs directly, receive new posts in their timelines, and boost or favorite content to their followers. Multi-blog support lets writers maintain separate blogs with distinct pen names from a single account without revealing their association, while OAuth 2.0 integration enables single sign-on onboarding from existing identity providers. Hashtag categorization organizes posts by topic, pinned posts create static pages for permanent content, and draft mode lets writers compose privately before publishing. Blog elements are localized in over 20 languages with first-class right-to-left script support for Arabic, Hebrew, and other RTL languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Publish a personal blog you fully own, with a Markdown writing desk, an admin dashboard, and reader-facing pages all in one install. Write posts with live preview, Mermaid diagrams, math formulas, and custom highlight blocks, then paste or upload images straight from the editor or import existing Markdown files when moving over from another platform. Posts and drafts can be managed in bulk, filed under categories and tags, and locked behind passwords for individual articles or whole categories. Readers get a table of contents, code copy buttons, search, RSS feeds, friend links, and donation links, and pages follow their light or dark preference on phones and desktops. The dashboard charts visitors and page views, with Google Analytics and Baidu Analytics as optional add-ons, while Waline comments bring email notifications and webhooks. Image storage is built in, with compression and watermarking, or can be handed to PicGo, object storage, or GitHub. Pipelines run custom code or call webhooks after selected events, custom pages and CSS, HTML, or JavaScript reshape the layout, and collaborator accounts with permissions plus API tokens let several authors share one site or feed a separate frontend. Backups, import and export, and update notices live in the admin panel, and HTTPS certificates for your domain are issued and renewed automatically. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Get ready to transform your audience into a thriving empire with Ghost, the ultimate toolkit for the modern creator on a mission to monetize their mojo. Picture this: a sleek website that screams 'you', bursting with content that captivates, newsletters that fly straight into inboxes, and a subscription service that turns followers into financiers. Wave goodbye to bland and hello to a smorgasbord of stunning, free themes that you can finesse to fit your unique flair. But wait, there's more! Ghost's editor is like the Swiss Army knife for content connoisseurs—slick, sophisticated, and oh-so-simple to use. Unleash your creativity with multimedia storytelling that includes everything but the kitchen sink—galleries, chucklesome gifs, videos, podcasts, you name it. And when it's time to hit 'send', those built-in newsletters make sure your words woo your audience without breaking a sweat. Want to play the mysterious type? Ghost's got you covered with native signup forms that turn casual lurkers into committed members. And because we all love a good sneak peek, Ghost dishes out the deets with analytics that spill the tea on who's loving your work the most. Plus, with tantalizing offers and promotions, you'll have new subscribers flocking like seagulls at a beach picnic. All this, hosted on RepoCloud, where the cost is as tiny as your chances of being bored. So, what are you waiting for? Let's Ghost!

Bloggers and small communities who love static-site speed but miss a real admin panel get both from NeutralPress, a dynamic CMS that regenerates pages only when content changes and serves everything else like a static site. You write in a WYSIWYG editor or in Markdown and MDX, manage drafts and versions, and build custom pages by dragging components together with live preview, all inside a backend that shares the frontend's design language instead of feeling like a separate era. A media system compresses and optimizes images, shows EXIF data, builds photo walls, and guards against hotlinking, while tags and categories organize the archive. Readers get nested comments with moderation and anti-spam, full-text search tuned for content and code terms, RSS and newsletter subscriptions, and a friend-links system that checks its own links and hides the dead ones. Behind the scenes, multi-role permissions, OAuth and passkey sign-in, two-factor authentication, rate limiting, audit logs that can restore changes, visitor analytics with keyword and device breakdowns, and scheduled health checks keep the site safe and understood. Storage can live on local disk, S3, R2, or other object stores, with several strategies running side by side. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Freelancers keep rebuilding the same handoff: developer builds the site, client breaks the layout trying to change a headline. Primo is an open-source CMS built for that handoff, where developers define reusable blocks and page types, and clients edit text, images, and links directly on the rendered page without touching the structure underneath. Multiple client sites live in one dashboard, organized into groups with a domain each, and publishing generates fast static HTML you can serve from Primo itself or export to another host. The whole site also exists as structured local files, so you or an AI coding agent can pull a site down, edit its blocks and fields in your normal tools, push changes back with revision checks that protect client edits, and publish when ready. Editors can add child pages and reorder the blocks a page type allows, while developers keep control of block code, field schemas, layouts, and roles. A marketplace of starters gives new projects a running start across restaurants, portfolios, practices, and shops. One small server binary with embedded storage runs the CMS and serves the published sites, which suits an agency hosting a dozen client sites on one machine. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Editors can update a static website without learning Git, because Pages CMS puts a visual editor on top of the repository itself. A single .pages.yml file defines what is editable: collections of Markdown files that share a schema, standalone files such as site settings, and nested groups that organize the sidebar. Fields cover strings, rich text, code, dates, numbers, booleans, selects, images, files, references, objects, and repeatable blocks, with front matter stored as YAML, JSON, or TOML. Plain text files like robots.txt open in a raw editor, redirect files in a code editor, and CSV files as an editable datagrid. Collection lists can be searched, sorted, and shown flat or as a folder tree. The media manager supports drag-and-drop uploads, multi-file selection, allowed extensions, and safe or random renaming. People without GitHub accounts join through email invitations and edit content and media, with their saves committed through the GitHub App. Custom action buttons dispatch GitHub Actions workflows after a confirmation dialog or input form, so one click can rebuild a preview or deploy the site. Commit message templates and a choice of app or user commit identity shape how each save appears in Git history. The responsive interface works on mobile screens, and suits Jekyll, Hugo, Astro, Next.js, Eleventy, VuePress, and similar site generators. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Vvveb, an open-source CMS with a drag-and-drop page builder and a built-in store, runs a blog, a portfolio, and a webshop from one dashboard, with every page edited visually on a true WYSIWYG canvas. Reusable blocks, page revisions, a code editor, and an optional AI assistant plugin sit alongside media management, custom fields, custom posts, and custom products that shape content well beyond plain pages. The store handles one-page checkout, subscriptions, digital downloads, vouchers, coupons, product options, attributes, variants, reviews, and Q&A across multiple payment methods and currencies. Content can be published in several languages, the admin interface switches with language packs, many sites or subdomains share one installation, and action-level permissions are assigned to each user role. A bundled SEO plugin generates sitemaps, robots.txt, Open Graph tags, hreflang links, and schema markup, and hybrid headless mode serves the same content to any frontend through GraphQL and REST endpoints. A randomized admin login URL, two-factor authentication, brute-force defenses, and a built-in integrity check guard the dashboard, and manual or automatic backups plus import and export tools cover recovery and migration. Any HTML template converts into a theme in minutes, a demo importer loads sample content for a fast start, and plugins and themes install with one click from the admin dashboard. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Webstudio delivers a professional-grade visual website builder that outputs semantic HTML and clean CSS without inline style pollution or JavaScript-heavy render paths. The live canvas editor provides direct manipulation of all CSS properties — flexbox, grid, spacing, typography, transforms, and filters — with real-time preview across responsive breakpoints. The component system supports reusable instances with variants and overrides, while design tokens maintain consistent colors, fonts, and spacing across the entire site. Data bindings connect to external content sources through native integrations with Strapi and Supabase, plus a generic CMS interface for any REST API backend. The Scroll Timeline API powers animations at 120 FPS off the main thread, with presets for rotate, scale, translate, opacity, color, and filter effects. Projects build as dynamic Remix applications with server-side rendering or export as static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. The Webstudio CLI generates Docker-ready builds that run a Node.js server on port 3000, with Nginx reverse proxy configuration for SSL termination via Let's Encrypt. The builder requires minimum 1 GB RAM and 1 CPU core for Docker builds. MCP integration enables AI agents to create and modify websites programmatically. On RepoCloud, deploy Webstudio projects on a dedicated VPS with root SSH access, persistent storage, and complete control over your hosting, custom domains, and deployment pipeline, all under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Marble gives your blog, changelog, or product updates a calm editorial home, then hands clean JSON to whatever website you already built. Writers work in a focused rich-text editor with headings, lists, code blocks, images, video, and embeds, while a readability score quietly grades each draft as it grows. Every post carries authors, one category, tags, a cover image, and typed custom fields, so a changelog entry and a long guide can share one predictable structure. Your frontend pulls sanitized HTML or Markdown through the REST API or typed SDK, filtering by category, tag, or search in a single request. Read-only public keys serve published posts safely, while scoped private keys unlock drafts and write access for the tools you trust. Uploads of images, video, audio, and documents land in a media library with alt text and dimensions, ready to embed anywhere. Signed webhooks announce every change to your site, Slack, or Discord with retries and a delivery log, and an MCP server lets AI agents search and draft content too. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.