Self-Hosted CMS and Blogging Platforms
Hosted site builders are convenient but tie your domain, themes and data to the platform. A self-hosted CMS gives you full control over content, design and data, with mature options from personal blogs to company sites.
How to choose
- Traditional CMS (themes and pages), headless CMS (a content API only) or a lightweight blog engine
- The editor, multilingual content, multiple authors and roles
- Stack and running costs: PHP, Node.js or Go, and database and cache requirements
Recommended software
66 in total, ranked by community recommendations, ratings and likes
Advanced content management and publishing platform. The current version is called 'Revolution'.
File-based CMS. Easy to setup. Easy to use. Flexible as hell.
Powerful CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications.
Simple, flexible and useful content management system (documentation only available in German).
Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform on AWS serverless (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3). TypeScript framework with multi-tenancy, lifecycle hooks, GraphQL API, and AI-assisted development via MCP server. Built for developers at large organizations.
A flat-file content management system and template engine
The friendly CMS. Free and open source with an amazing community.
Content-first CMS that aims to make life enjoyable for developers and content managers alike.
Author-friendly flat-file-cms with a visual markdown editor based on vue.js.
Powerful and easy to use CMS to build websites, blogs or e-commerce stores.
Speedy and secure content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework.
Other use cases
- Self-Hosted Photo Backup and Galleries
- Self-Hosted Media Servers
- Open-Source Note-Taking Apps
- Self-Hosted Password Managers
- Self-Hosted Cloud Storage and File Sync
- Open-Source Project Management and Kanban Boards
- Self-Hosted Wikis and Knowledge Bases
- Self-Hosted Web and Product Analytics
- Self-Hosted RSS Readers
- Self-Hosted Bookmark Managers and Read-It-Later
- Self-Hosted Start Pages and Homelab Dashboards
- Self-Hosted Recipe Managers and Meal Planners
- Open-Source E-commerce Platforms
- Self-Hosted Pastebins and Secret Sharing