Trying to get rid of PHPnuke

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Joined: Aug 2004

Well heres the situation. I've used PHPnuke for about a year and a half and have become very acustom to how it works, and enjoy the addons to it. My only problem is it really likes to use system resources and seems to load kinda slow for some users, and I think by getting something that loads quicker I can help to bring people back. I don't mind spending a few bucks to buy a nicer CMS, but I need a CMS because I just don't have time for all the coding.

I've heard Post-nuke is a bit better and i've tryed mambo but don't care much for it... Anyone have some ideas on what I might like?

demonhale's picture

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What do you really like to do with the site?
You can check out hotscripts.com for some CMS,

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drupal.org - this is a good CMS.

If your CMS is running slowly though this might be caused by hardware not being good enough. You might need to investigate getting a dedicated server if you have enough visitors to warrant it... Changing CMS might not solve the problem Laughing out loud

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If you haven't been to opensourcecms.com already, check it out. It has demos of all the major cms's.

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I've been checking some out, and there are some nice CMS's out there.. Has anyone really had some good expierences with 1 particular CMS?

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There are some blog scripts that can effectively double as a CMS (ie WordPress - can write pages as well as posts.)

What you may want to try is setting up a sub domain to test other scripts. In that way, you can do some side-by-side comparisons (especially for load speeds.)

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Let me add a little update here. I still havent found a FREE CMS that would fullfill my requirements. So whats your opionions on CMS's that cost $$$?

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