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.

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!

Halo is a modern CMS that handles blogs, knowledge bases, corporate sites, and full e-commerce storefronts from a single installation, distinguished by a polyglot plugin architecture that runs both Java and JavaScript extensions on a GraalVM runtime. Built on Spring Boot 3 with a Vue.js admin console, the platform delivers a clean content management experience with Markdown and rich-text editing, live preview, scheduled publishing, draft management, media uploads, and granular multi-user role-based access controls. Plugins can be enabled or disabled at runtime without restarting the server, and the official marketplace offers over 100 free themes plus a growing library of extensions covering SEO optimization, search integration, paid content access, AI writing assistance, and Q&A chatbots. Storage backends are configurable through plugins, supporting local disk, S3-compatible object storage, and other providers. The fully documented RESTful API enables headless CMS usage for decoupled frontend architectures. Database support includes embedded H2 for quick starts, with production deployments on PostgreSQL or MySQL. Nearly 40,000 GitHub stars and over 2.5 million Docker pulls reflect the project's maturity and active development pace. A single Docker command gets a functional instance running on port 8090. 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.

GoatCounter delivers meaningful web traffic insights — pageviews, referrers, browsers, screen sizes, country-level geolocation — without setting a single cookie, without collecting personal data, and without forcing GDPR consent banners on your visitors. Written entirely in Go and distributed as a single compiled binary consuming roughly 25MB of RAM, it adds just 3.5KB to your pages via the tracking script, with a JavaScript-free tracking pixel alternative for sites that avoid scripts entirely, plus backend middleware integration and log file import for server-side collection. The dashboard displays pageview counts per path with hourly resolution, referrer sources grouped by domain with full URL on hover, browser and OS version breakdowns, screen size distributions, and country-level location data derived from IP addresses that are immediately discarded after geolocation. Campaign tracking supports UTM parameters and custom data attributes. A public stats option exposes your dashboard at a shareable URL for build-in-public transparency. SQLite serves as the default database requiring zero administration, while PostgreSQL handles higher-traffic deployments with multi-site setups. Built-in ACME and TLS certificate management eliminates reverse proxy requirements for HTTPS — no Nginx or Caddy needed. The REST API provides programmatic access to all analytics data. Deploy as a single binary, via Docker with the official arp242/goatcounter image, or through native packages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. EUPL-1.2 licensed.

Artalk embeds a full commenting system into any webpage with three lines of JavaScript, packing multi-site management, social login, spam filtering, and Markdown rendering into a client that weighs roughly 40KB. One server instance manages comments for unlimited websites with complete data isolation between sites, eliminating the need for separate deployments per project. The framework-agnostic Vanilla JS client renders a complete comment interface with Markdown support, LaTeX mathematical formula rendering, image uploads, emoji packs compatible with OwO format, and automatic dark mode detection. An integrated admin dashboard accessible through the comment box provides comment moderation queues, IP banning, comment pinning, page-level statistics, and content management without direct database access. Social login authenticates commenters through GitHub, Google, Twitter, Discord, and additional OAuth providers, while captcha protection spans four backends: image captcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA, and hCaptcha. Spam filtering layers include Akismet integration, keyword block lists, and cloud moderation services that catch unwanted content before publication. Email notifications support SMTP, Aliyun DM, and Sendmail transports with customizable templates, and multi-channel push notifications extend to Telegram, Bark, and other messaging platforms. The OpenAPI-documented HTTP API enables programmatic comment management. Database flexibility covers SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. A plugin marketplace offers community extensions for custom behavior. Continuously maintained for over 8 years. 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.

Kaleta is a business-website CMS where the page you edit is the page your visitors get, not a preview of it. The visual builder works on the live canvas: add sections, drag elements, edit text in place, and style every element separately for desktop, tablet, phone, and hover before you publish. Forty-six elements and forty ready-made sections cover pricing tables, timelines, before-and-after sliders, galleries, accordions, carousels, maps, and mega menus. Consistency comes from a design-token system: change one colour, font, spacing, or radius token and the whole site follows, with a WCAG contrast check on every colour pair and export in the W3C token format. Blocks you reuse become components edited once and updated everywhere, and each page carries its own search title, sharing image, and visibility, with the last twenty publications kept as versions. Moving in is a first-class feature: importers take WordPress exports including WooCommerce products and Polylang or WPML translations, plus Ghost, Blogger, Joomla, Drupal, and Webflow, creating a redirect from every old address so rankings survive. An optional AI assistant connected through MCP builds pages and handles chores only as drafts you approve. Forms, booking, enquiries, media folders with focal-point cropping, multilingual publishing, and GDPR duties such as automatic personal-data deletion are built in rather than bolted on. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

TYPO3 lets an organization run any number of multilingual websites from one installation, with editors working in a page tree and administrators deciding who may touch what. Editing happens in a context panel that slides in beside the page layout, and a guided wizard creates new pages step by step. Translations can be copied or connected to their source with change tracking, and sites can mix languages, including right-to-left scripts. Workspaces keep edits away from the live site until they are previewed and approved, while access lists, page permissions, and mounts control which parts of the tree each backend user may change. Marketing teams get a QR code module and a short URL module with hit counters and expiry dates, and redirects are created automatically whenever a page slug changes. The Form Framework builds forms with multiple file uploads in one field, CKEditor 5 text editing, and email notifications customized in the backend. A dashboard shows widgets such as recent documents and backend logins, and a Bookmark Manager groups shortcuts into large page trees. The Camino starter theme gives integrators a ready-made frontend with several color schemes, and developers shape sites further with Fluid templates and TypoScript, plus extensions from extensions.typo3.org. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 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.

Ever Works transforms a single text prompt into a fully researched, written, coded, and deployed website through autonomous AI agents that operate on a configurable 15-step generation pipeline. Unlike one-shot builders, it continuously improves generated content on a schedule, keeping sites fresh without manual intervention. The platform integrates with six AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, Mistral, Ollama) via gateways like OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, while its plugin system connects ten search providers including Tavily, Brave, Exa, SerpAPI, and Perplexity for deep autonomous research. Every generation is Git-native — code and content live in your own GitHub repositories as commits, providing full version control, portability, and zero vendor lock-in. The monorepo ships a NestJS 11 REST API with JWT authentication, a Next.js 16 web dashboard for managing works, a CLI for terminal operations, an MCP server for AI agent integration, and admin tooling. Content management supports items, categories, tags, and collections, while deployment targets include Vercel and Kubernetes. Background processing runs on Trigger.dev with BullMQ scheduling, and monitoring leverages Sentry plus PostHog for error tracking and product analytics. The platform supports OAuth via GitHub and Google, subscription billing, email notifications, and AI chat conversations for natural-language interaction with your generated works. 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.

Named from the German "Ich schrei sonst" - roughly "or I'll scream" - Isso is a lightweight Python/JavaScript commenting server, a drop-in Disqus replacement for people who noticed what Disqus does to reader privacy and page load times. The design premise is printed right in the docs: comments are not Big Data. So the backend is a single SQLite file rather than a database cluster, and the entire client is one embeddable JavaScript file - 65 kB, 20 kB gzipped - that you drop into any static site, blog, or CMS. Commenters write in Markdown, need no account, and can edit or delete their own comments within a configurable window (15 minutes by default). Spam control comes from an optional moderation queue: held comments stay invisible until you activate them via an admin interface or email notification links. Migration is a first-class feature, with importers for Disqus and WordPress exports, so years of existing threads move over intact. Because everything is server-rendered from your own instance, no third party tracks your readers, and real-world switchers report smaller pages and faster loads than the Disqus embed. MIT-licensed, running since 2012.

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.

When you want honest traffic numbers without tracking cookies or stored IP addresses, Liwan puts a real-time analytics dashboard on your own server. The dashboard ranks pages, referrers, countries, browsers, platforms, and devices, charts visitors over time, and filters out bot traffic by default. Session metrics add bounce rate, average time on site, and entry and exit pages, while UTM fields attribute visits to campaigns. Collection is adjustable globally and per site: choose how visitors are grouped, whether to store country and city, country only, or no location, and how long events are kept. Drop rules discard internal, test, and local traffic before storage, and a pruning tool applies new settings to history after a dry-run preview. Tracking is one line of HTML, or your own server can send events with custom names and properties. Location can come from a MaxMind database or from Cloudflare, Vercel, and other proxy headers. One instance holds several projects and sites, with team accounts and single sign-on through Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, or an OpenID Connect provider such as Keycloak or Dex. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Design a website on a canvas, manage its content in spreadsheet-style tables, and publish plain HTML, all from one self-hosted Instatic server. Designers see several breakpoint frames side by side, or switch to live mode and edit one full-size page in place. A built-in design system expands one brand color into a full shade scale, generates fluid type and spacing scales, and writes the utility classes into a single small stylesheet. Reusable Visual Components take typed parameters and named slots, templates set site-wide or per-post-type layouts, and loops repeat a design over posts or media. Editors work in custom post types and data tables, and posts move through draft, scheduled, and published states. Forms on the site save their submissions to tables of your own. An AI agent can do the building, placing real, editable nodes on the canvas using Claude, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or Ollama with your own key, and an MCP connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, and other remote agents work on the site too. Super Import converts a whole static site into pages, styles, tokens, and media. Teams get roles built from 38 capabilities, TOTP two-factor sign-in, and an append-only audit log, plus site branches with private copies, shareable preview links, and merge review. Everything published is baked to plain HTML and CSS on disk. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

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.

Comments for small sites without Disqus's baggage: Cusdis is a lightweight, privacy-first, open-source comment system for embedding under blog posts and articles. The embedded JavaScript SDK is about 5 KB gzipped (Disqus is roughly 24 KB), sets no cookies, runs no tracking, and does not require readers to create an account or sign in before commenting. Integration is two lines: a container div with your app ID and an async script tag, with ready-made adapters for common frameworks and static site generators. Moderation is approval-based - new comments stay hidden until you approve them from the dashboard, and email notifications include a Quick Approve link that approves or replies to a comment from your phone without logging in. A webhook fires on every new comment for integrations like Telegram notifications. The widget ships with built-in i18n and dark mode. The stack is TypeScript and Next.js with a Prisma data layer, deployable via Docker with PostgreSQL. Deliberately minimalist: no ads, no reader profiling, and your comment data lives in your own database.

Add a live support desk to any website with Live Helper Chat, where visitors talk to operators or bots and you own every transcript. Site owners paste a generated embed snippet into any page, and the start-chat fields are customizable. Chats are routed by department, language, location, or custom attributes, wait in a priority queue, and move between agents. Operators, departments, and simultaneous chats are unlimited. Agents watch a visitor type before the message is sent, read pages visited and time on site in the online visitors list, and send proactive invitations to people who linger. Voice, video, and screen sharing run through Jitsi or Agora, and a screenshot shows what the visitor sees. Bot designers chain triggers and actions in a visual builder, call ChatGPT, Gemini, Ollama, Rasa, or any REST API, and hand the conversation to a person when needed. Incoming email becomes tickets beside chats, and extensions connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Twilio SMS. Staff answer from the browser, a desktop app, a Chrome extension, or iOS and Android apps. Management tools include roles, groups, statistics, transcripts, and an archive, and extensions add two-factor login, LDAP, and single sign-on. It suits banks, healthcare teams, universities, and game studios that must keep chat data in house. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.