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.
• Written in Rust, for fast execution, low memory usage, and secure plugins.
• 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.
• Static, cacheable plugins by default. This allows PageZest to go up to 400x faster than Wordpress.

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• 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.