Open Source CMS Matters - A best fit for your business

1. Cost-effective

The actual software is free to download and use, and if you are creating a very basic website with little to no customization, using an open-source CMS can be cheaper than going with a proprietary option.

2. Frequently updated

Open-source CMS platforms are supported by a large community of developers, which is always working to improve the code. Bugs and security vulnerabilities are usually fixed quickly, and the CMS is always adding new features and improving functionality.

3. Portability

If you’re hiring a third-party developer or web development agency to build your site, the main benefits of using an open-source platform are the accessibility of the code. With an open-source platform, you should have access to all the code if you ever need to make changes to your site or hosting environment.

4. Support from Community

If you use an open-source solution, you reap the benefits of a huge community of enthusiastic developers, all working to improve and contribute to the product you use. Thousands of developers create new templates and extensions and provide input to make the platform work better. And a plus fact, all these extra benefits you avail are mostly free of cost.

5. Freedom and Flexibility

You own everything! Open-source CMS grants you the freedom to use whatever you feel like without getting into costly contracts, depending upon conditions of the vendor, paying expensive prices for extra functionalities, having to work at the vendor’s tempo… You decide everything you want for yourself, not the vendor of CMS you choose. Also, you have the possibility of using whatever version or build of the software and of the hardware you need. You upgrade whenever you feel like it.

6. Security

Of course, every CMS has its own security measures, like encrypting, documentation, an active team that checks all the code, and a security protocol. Still, some Content Management Systems are more vulnerable than others. Hackers, for instance, are more focused on popular CMSs like WordPress and Drupal.

But if you opt for TYPO3, it is the most secure CMS known with next to zero security breaches.

However, Bugs in Open Source Software are usually fixed in no time by the community with faster response rates. In the proprietary CMS, we see mostly the opposite. Major companies like Oracle or Microsoft, for example, typically take weeks if not months to patch vulnerabilities.

7. Better licensing

If we talk about proprietary CMS, the part of the problem is that you get no ownership, nor any rights if the software doesn't work or stops working.

Open source licenses like the GPL are specifically designed to protect the customer, ensuring you get to use the software however you need and without arbitrary limitations, for as long as you like. The implications of the GPL and its derivative licenses are widely understood.

8. Quality and Trust

Well nothing much, I just want you to ask yourself which software package is most likely the better one: the one created by a few developers or the one created by hundreds if not thousands of developers?

Many Open source CMS has more than better quality and performance than compared to proprietary CMS,