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Add to SafariWhen comparing Fossil SCM vs Grav CMS, the Slant community recommends Grav CMS for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Grav CMS is ranked 13th while Fossil SCM is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Grav CMS is:
Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts.
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Pros
Pro All in one
While most other platforms allow either online blogging, or development offline and hosting on some other platform, fossil allows you to develop locally, host it locally, view it locally, and you can substitue locally with remote if you want to.
It's just one file. Fossil.
Pro Free
It is. It is also free as in libre, as in the license is similar (or equivilant) to BSD-2
Pro Simple to use
Fossil doesn't depend on a specific language to be present on the target or development system. Just write, commit, and done.
Pro Fast, easy to use
Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts.
Pro Does not use any database, a complete flat Elise CMS
Database being a point of vulnerability is completely removed from the equation with it's flat file approach.
Cons
Con You have to do everything manually and know what you're doing
It is similar to the "Writing your own solution" option
Con Not User Friendly
Require some technical knowledge to use
