About PageZest

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

Written in Rust, for fast execution, low memory usage, and secure plugins.
Needs maximum 10 MB of RAM, around 50-100x less RAM than Wordpress, thus allowing people to easily stack 100 blogs on a single 1 GB RAM server.
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.
- 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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