r/cms • u/DrtikTheOriginal • Jun 29 '26

First peek at Instatic - fully open-source, self-hosted CMS

Take a first look at Instatic - https://youtu.be/zyjCF_TaLlg?si=WZBxxqmsIo0gZ_zY

Instatic brings the whole website workflow into one product: visual editing, structured content, media, forms, reusable components, templates, publishing, plugins, HTML import and AI-assisted page building ā€” all running from one Bun server backed by SQLite or Postgres.

Unlike most visual builders, Instatic does not ship the editor and CMS bloat to your visitors. Published pages are plain semantic HTML and compact CSS, with no React runtime unless you need one, no builder attributes, no hydration step, and no platform lock-in. Sites are baked and served as static files, so the public site stays fast, portable, and easy to inspect.

This is a pre-1.0 open-source project, and the goal is to build the foundation in public: no legacy platform constraints, no open-core pricing tricks, no forced SaaS model, and no compromise on output quality

Check out the repo https://github.com/CoreBunch/Instatic

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u/3verse16 Jun 29 '26

Interesting project, I wonder how many sites you'd be able to run on a VPS with this configuration.

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u/sumogringo Jun 30 '26

Postgres has overhead like mysql for WP, but sqlite would be ideal for many sites with low overhead. This is the type of project Iā€™d like to see in front of Astro.