[OT] CMS suggestions?

[Cliff Wells]

This discussion is quite old and completely moot.   I switched the Nginx
wiki to MediaWiki some months ago.

Regards,
Cliff

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 15:18 +0100, Joe Aston wrote:
> I couldn't agree more. Plone/Zope is a beast.
> 
> If you're looking for something PHP based, I can't recommend Symphony
> enough: http://symphony-cms.com. 
> 
> Nothing else in the PHP world matches it in terms of flexibility.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 19:39 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
>         > >> - php-based
>         >
>         > Because right now i know a little PHP, so if a PHP-based CMS
>         happens
>         > to crash or if there's something i might want to change,
>         i'll know
>         > what i'm looking at when i open the hood.
>         >
>         > > For this and other reasons, we usually prefer Plone
>         (Python-based,
>         > > www.plone.org).
>         >
>         > Which would mean i'd have (or want) to learn Python. It's on
>         my list,
>         > but not checked yet. Plus, this is obviously my opinion, i
>         feel
>         > scripting languages make much more sense than programming
>         languages as
>         > far as web-content goes. I like how PHP is embeded in HTML
>         and
>         > vice-versa, makes sense to me.
>         >
>         > I've barely explored Python, though, but i'll check out
>         Plone.
>         
>         
>         Plone runs on Zope, which is pretty much the opposite of
>         "lightweight".
>         It's huge and slow (although quite powerful if you want to
>         dedicate a
>         goodly portion of your life to learning it).
>         You won't be able to handle any significant amount of traffic
>         without a
>         dedicated server (better yet, two dedicated servers, one
>         server running
>         Squid as a caching proxy in front of a Zope cluster on the
>         other
>         server).
>         
>         If you want lightweight and easy, I'd stick with a PHP blog or
>         CMS
>         (although you'll want to be *very* wary of security flaws)
>         *or* if you
>         are willing to learn Python (pretty easy), I'd consider using
>         a lighter
>         Python framework such as Pylons or Turbogears.
>         
>         Cliff
>         
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