joesb / monsti

Simple and resource efficient CMS for small sites

Monsti CMS

Monsti is a CMS designed to host multiple websites or blogs. It is mainly designed for web projects like personal, small business, or small NGO websites.

It provides a simple web frontend for basic site building and editing tasks. More advanced tasks like adding new content types have to be done by writing modules in Go that communicate to Monsti via RPC using a high level API.

Monsti is still under development and unstable. Don't expect any backward compatibility at this point. It's already in use to host some non critical websites, but the API and architecture still change a lot.

Features

• Fast; thanks to Go, a statically typed compiled language, and dependency based caching of pages, queries and calculations. Make your websites almost as fast as statically generated ones!
• Low armortized (i.e. for many hosted sites) resource usage
• No database system required; configuration and content is stored in human readable files. Xapian integration is planned for searching and indexing.
• Internationalization ready (Included languages: de, en).
• Easy to use (albeit basic at the current stage of development) web frontend.
• Separation of code, configuration and presentation.
• Developer friendly: Includes a HTTPd; Go templates; high level API for node type and field creation and other common tasks.
• Administrator friendly: Syslog; init script; Makefile target for basic Debian packaging (via fpm, other distributions should be easy); respecting the filesystem hierarchy

Project

Website: http://www.monsti.org/ Code: http://www.gitorious.org/monsti | http://github.com/monsti

Acknowledgements

• Silk Icons by Mark James
• Influenced by Wordpress, Kotti, Plone, Drupal, and other great open source CMS.