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When comparing known vs ExpressionEngine, the Slant community recommends ExpressionEngine for most people. In the question“What is the fastest CMS for web content (news website with some static pages) ?” ExpressionEngine is ranked 13th while known is ranked 14th.
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Pros
Pro Very lightweight
Known is is very lightweight (compared to other CMS like WordPress).
Pro No restrictions on how a site can be designed
Pro Focus on security
Pro Commercial support
Cons
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Con Simple pages can hurt performance
A simple page can rack up on database queries. Many sites usually suffer from this. Create an empty page and there's a few queries that run and it's unneccessary.
Con Can be overkill for simple or smaller sites
Con Cost is high
Especially for commercial sites
Con Built on top of codeigniter: an outdated framework
Codeigniter was cool.... back when PHP was at 5.2