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CMS Made SimplevsOxMgr

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

CMS Made SimpleOxMgr
Score64/10049/100
Rank in category#12 of 42 in Content Management#6 of 20 in Application Management
GitHub stars—294
Stars, last 30 days——
Stable releases, 12 months012
Latest release—v0.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-2.0MIT
Main language—Rust

Which one should you pick?

CMS Made Simple scores 64/100 against 49/100 for OxMgr, so it is the safer default.

OxMgr ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for CMS Made Simple.

If you want the quickest setup, OxMgr is easier to run; CMS Made Simple needs more configuration.

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