About PageZest

PageZest is a new Content Management System (CMS), started in February 2025. PageZest is US-based engineering. The goals of this project are:

Be able to offer 5 free websites to each user. This is possible since each website takes such little amounts of memory (250 kb/request), that we can give away 5 websites without even thinking about it.
Written in Rust, for fast execution, low memory usage, and secure plugins.
Needing only 250 kb/request, around 1000 less RAM than Wordpress, thus allowing us to easily stack 500 websites on a single 1 GB RAM server.
- Wordpress without plugins take 22 MB per request.
- Wordpress with plugins balloons up to 100 MB per request.
Secure, sandboxed plugins. The main reason Wordpress is so easily hackable is that plugins have the same execution privileges as the host Wordpress PHP code.
- more explanation on the "Why Wordpress Sucks" page.
- PageZest could use something like a webassembly vm or Lua so that execution of plugins is totally sandboxed. Much harder to hack.

We will build in public. This means.......

We will open-source proof of concepts, measurements. Here is link to PageZest git repo
We will regularly post blog posts explaining the most recent engineering decisions and benchmarking experiments

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Contact

You can contact us via email by: eng [at] pagezest dot com.