When comparing ExpressionEngine vs Appernetic, the Slant community recommends Appernetic for most people. In the question“What is the fastest CMS for web content (news website with some static pages) ?” Appernetic is ranked 12th while ExpressionEngine is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Appernetic is:
Non-developers can easily write and update content using the inline PageDown editor.
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Pros
Pro No restrictions on how a site can be designed
Pro Focus on security
Pro Commercial support
Pro PageDown editor with image upload
Non-developers can easily write and update content using the inline PageDown editor.
Pro Integrated git flow
Git and GitHub is used for version control, cloning, publishing and syncing of your Appernetic Hugo project. No need to manually enter git commands.
Pro Fast set-up
A Hugo site is configured with git, a file structure and a theme in 2 min instead of 30 min.
Pro Integrated Cloudinary image management
You automatically get a cloudinary link when you upload an image.
Pro Developers have complete control over the source code
Cons
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Con Built on top of codeigniter: an outdated framework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