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A fast, simple & powerful blog framework and static site generator powered by Node.js. With Hexo, you can quicly build static websites and blogs that generates at an increaible speed. Hexo generates hundreds of files per seconds and quickly builds and push your website to deployment, with a single command. You can have your site up and running in minutes on well known hosts and platforms like GitHub Pages, Heroku, Digital Ocean and other platforms. The framework support all features of  GitHub Flavored Markdown and most Octopress plugins by default. Hexo is released free and open-source under the MIT License.

Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. Hugo is the fastest tool of its kind, it generates pages at <1 ms per page, the average site builds in less than a second. Hugo also supports unlimited content types, taxonomies, menus, dynamic API-driven content, and more, all without plugins. Hugo is written in Go and released fully free and open-source under the Apache-2.0 License.

Are you tiered of the complexity when it comes to setting up a website? A static site generator like Plenti might be your solution. Plenti is a static site generator written in Go for speed and utilize Svelte for ease of use on the frontend. With Plenti, you can ditch the headaces of maintaing a content management system and SQL databases. Plenti simply connects to your Git backend and be pushed to production using GitHub Action or Gitlab Pipelines.

WordPress powers roughly 30% of all web pages online. It's a free and open source CMS designed and developed for self-hosted publishing by Automattic, Inc. The software is written in PHP and utilize either MySQL or MariaDB as a database, and is compatible with most web hosts. Wordpress includes a plugin architecture and a templating system that can be used to extend and customize your website. These are commonly known as WordPress plugins and WordPress themes and make up a whole open source and commercial eco-system where anyone is free to create products for the platform. 

October is a free, open-source and self-hosted content management system written in PHP on top of the framework Laravel. The CMS features a universal extendable dashboard, inspector, reusable CMS components and a plugin system that can be used to extend functinality of your website. The plugin store contains thousands of community-made plugins that can either be purchased or installed for free. As a data store, October CMS supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

The Mura CMS platform makes it easier & faster to build and update websites. The content management system was created to free content managers from distraction of multiple tools, the worry of steep learning curves, and a clear need to tell the right story, to the right audience, at the right time. Mura is loved by content managers, content contributors, marketers and developers alike.