[PLUG] Small Footprint CMS systems

Lancashire, Pete plancashire at ci.portland.or.us
Mon Jun 5 15:45:24 UTC 2006


another cms site i check out from time to time

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

-pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Lofstrom [mailto:keithl at kl-ic.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:43 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: [PLUG] Small Footprint CMS systems
> 
> 
> 
> Last night at the general PLUG meeting we had a little bit of
> discussion about Content Management Systems (CMS).  Somebody
> mentioned the sites http://cmsmatrix.org/ and http://cmswatch.org/
> Interesting review sites, and a lot of data.  Thanks for the tip!
> Not much size/resource/speed data, though.
> 
> I have an opportunity to deploy a very simple CMS for an educational
> non-profit locally; there was an offer to host it on a Plone server
> last night.  One portion of the sub-site may be maintained by middle
> school students, and Plone's granular permission structure and
> workflow management would be ideal. 
> 
> Also Plone is built on Zope and on Python, and while my heart
> belongs to Perl, I suspect Perl and Python and Ruby are all a
> little more tolerant of spotty security upgrades than the PHP
> that the vast majority of the open source CMS's seem to be 
> written on.  Maybe "good" PHP is secure, but how does one judge
> the goodness of PHP code in a CMS?
> 
> If that Plone server offer doesn't work out, and the site must go
> on a low cost virtual server, there will likely not be enough RAM to
> run a big footprint CMS like Plone.  I was wondering if there are
> any CMS's out there that have the same workflow as Plone, but are
> known to have a small memory footprint.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Keith
> 
> PS - Assuming Apache and mail server and such are loaded, "footprint"
> means how much more RAM is gobbled up when the CMS and supporting
> tools are loaded, compared to when they are not.  Not a difficult
> test, but quantitative (count the megabytes) as compared to "I have
> a GByte of RAM and I don't notice it" kinds of non-answers.
> 
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