Sun, 7 May 2017 12:24:32 -0400 Paul Suh <pl...@goodeast.com> > Folks, > > Completely off topic, but I'd value input from this community in > particular. I need to recommend a (replacement) CMS for the > public-facing web site for my day job. > [...] > Suggestions?
Hi Paul, There is, actually nothing OpenBSD specific in your mission statement. Yet, asking the question here means you want to pursue setting up your company (at least site hosting) work flow around OpenBSD system setup. You are indeed going to be setting up multiple stacks to try adjust on the go, from exported plain text and portable documents directories to static web site generators and complete content or document management systems, each iteration addressing management complexity. These could be brought to reliably reproducible results from the client users, (in your organisation) front ends desktop / laptops, to the networking and back end serving systems, to the publicly exposed web interfaces, and your system integration management systems as well, all with OpenBSD. Now on to the specifics, as Marc advises go give Drupal a spin, though mentioning marketing people means you either want to propose there the idea of running (at least part of) the web stack on OpenBSD, or you're looking for an OpenBSD oriented best current practical solution. Both are not your immediate concern as your specified user group is at best OS agnostic, and your application stack is at best OS independent too. So, the best practical advice is to just start setting up some OpenBSD systems to host some OpenBSD virtual machines with different basic set of self hosting web stacks from generic to more advanced, either local premise or in an inexpensive dedicated hosting service of your choice. There is no silver bullet for web sites setup and the OpenBSD specific parts are, try to adhere to web services in base and then go to ports. Beware, all PHP land is largely full of self inflicted countless hours loss and there is much more to lose in less popular web app languages. So, the suggestion is.. to just start setting up an OpenBSD web stack. You are going to make good progress, just better compared to other OS. Kind regards, Anton Lazarov
