Mvcms-lite ⭐ Fast

WordPress sites often require $50+/month VPS servers to handle moderate traffic due to database overhead. MVCMS-Lite, due to its "Lite" nature, runs efficiently on $5/month shared hosting. The average page load time for a standard MVCMS-Lite install is under 200ms.

Case Study 1: The Marketing Landing Page A digital agency needed to deploy 50 landing pages per month. Using MVCMS-Lite, they built a parent "Campaign" controller. Non-technical editors could edit JSON files in the /cms/content folder via SFTP or a simple GUI. Deployment time dropped from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

Case Study 2: The Internal Tool A logistics company needed a dashboard for drivers. They used MVCMS-Lite for the user authentication and routing layers, ignoring the CMS module entirely. The "Lite" nature meant the app consumed less than 64MB of RAM on a Raspberry Pi at each warehouse. mvcms-lite

Case Study 3: The Portfolio Site An artist wanted control over their layout but didn't know PHP. The developer installed MVCMS-Lite, created custom templates, and showed the artist how to edit markdown files. No database backups were needed. The entire site is backed up via Git.

Navigate to /admin on your domain. The default credentials (which must be changed immediately) are admin / password. Once logged in, you are presented with the MVCMS-Lite Dashboard—a spartan interface showing content trees, cache status, and routing tables. WordPress sites often require $50+/month VPS servers to

Ensure your .htaccess (Apache) or nginx.conf routes all requests to public/index.php. MVCMS-Lite comes with a pre-configured .htaccess by default.

Sample Nginx rule:

location / 
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

Unlike bloated CMS drag-and-drop builders, MVCMS-Lite assumes you know HTML. Here is how you build a "Products" page.

  • SQLite (recommended for small dynamic sites)

    • Suggested tables: users, pages, posts, metadata. SQLite (recommended for small dynamic sites)