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That being said, if open-source is important to you, be it for privacy or avoiding vendor lock-in, my three favorites are Directus (I am a contributor), KeystoneJS, and NetlifyCMS (not technically a headless CMS, but still worth considering).
If your CMS goes down, your site can still keep working. With options like 11ty, Astro, NextJS, and more for static site generation, your CMS only needs to run at build time. This gives you a lot more reliability, especially as modern serverless hosting options become more robust.
If your CMS goes down, your site can still keep working. With options like 11ty, Astro, NextJS, and more for static site generation, your CMS only needs to run at build time. This gives you a lot more reliability, especially as modern serverless hosting options become more robust.
That being said, if open-source is important to you, be it for privacy or avoiding vendor lock-in, my three favorites are Directus (I am a contributor), KeystoneJS, and NetlifyCMS (not technically a headless CMS, but still worth considering).
Traditionally, a CMS and a website are hosted on the same server. Wordpress, for example, is a CMS and website combination in which the admin can log into the CMS to get editing privileges directly on the site. More recently, there has been the JAMstack trend, part of which is the introduction and proliferation of the headless CMS.
That being said, if open-source is important to you, be it for privacy or avoiding vendor lock-in, my three favorites are Directus (I am a contributor), KeystoneJS, and NetlifyCMS (not technically a headless CMS, but still worth considering).
If your CMS goes down, your site can still keep working. With options like 11ty, Astro, NextJS, and more for static site generation, your CMS only needs to run at build time. This gives you a lot more reliability, especially as modern serverless hosting options become more robust.