Hello fellow Soylentils, I could use some of your insights and suggestions.
I am looking for a lean, mean, and safe open source solution that implements a small blog where I can rant and rave to my heart's delight to my two followers.
To set the scene, I am not looking for something big and/or unwieldy, which basically rules out the major platforms like Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. The software is going to be self hosted on my existing web server, which already runs Linux with Apache2, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and PostgreSQL (LAMPPP?) on a Debian platform.
I would like the following features:
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I am not familiar with the minimum resource requirements for running SoylentNews, but if it would not reasonably fit on a single RPi, maybe adding one or two more would suffice?
What suggestions do YOU have for our fellow Soylentil?
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 30 2019, @02:04AM (1 child)
I believe they are shutting down actually.
(Score: 4, Informative) by bryan on Tuesday July 30 2019, @05:56PM
I'm still around and I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon. However, sounds like you really just want a standard CMS [wikipedia.org]. As other posters have mentioned, a base install of Wordpress (or other popular CMS) is actually pretty lean. The "big and/or unwieldy" aspects come from the plugins and themes that people always seem to add.
If you are that concerned with performance, switching to Nginx/FPM will give you a bigger boost because FastCGI pools really are that much faster than the venerable Apache CGI/forking of old.