AntCMS

AntCMS is a flat-file CMS that's built to have very low system resource usage while providing website speeds rivaling a static website.

Although it is still considered preview software and is missing quite a bit of planned functionality, AntCMS in it's current state is both a functional and very fast CMS that can be used to deploy a website.

Missing Functionality

AntCMS is being largely rebuilt for better, faser, easier functionality the following functionality currently does not exist compared to previous versions:

• The administrator plugin (UI for system management).
• User management.

Features

• Built in support for gzip, brotli, and zstd compression.
• Automatic compression for text-based assets (JS, HTML, CSS, ect).
• Automatic image compression for JPEG, JPG, PNG, and WEBP image formats.
• Insanely fast with zero tuning.
• Minimal load on system resources.
• Easy SEO with automatic handling of the robots.txt and sitemap files.
• Automatic usage of ETags when serving assets to allow client-side caching.
• Support for custom themes.
• Per-theme additional styles applied to markdown content.
• Plugin suppport.
• Uses Markdown to write content and YAML for the infrequently needed configuration setup.

System Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or greater
• PHP Extensions: curl, dom, mbstring

Extensions for Improved Performance

For improved performance, the following PHP extensions are suggested:

• zstd for zstd compression.
• brotli for brotli compression.
• zlib for gzip / deflate compression.
• gd for automatic image compression.
• opcache as it optimizes all PHP applications & in AntCMS allows for a faster caching implementation to be used.
• ctype