Hi, I'm fresh to october and I'm hoping for a bit of advice from people with a little more experience with the CMS. I haven't spent much time with october yet, I've only got as far as installing it but I've instantly fallen for it. It looks and feels amazing and I'm really hoping this is going to work out for me. I currently use MODX which I have a lot of love for. I'm reasonably happy with it but I'm not so sure it's heading in the direction I want to go. I also feel it is falling behind compared to some of the newer CMS. I also begrudgingly use WordPress which is rapidly sucking out all enjoyment of development. So that's that, I have a reasonably large project coming up and I'm hoping to jump straight in with october. I have a bunch of questions so it would great to hear your opinions.

• I know october is beta but is it ready for production? it looks pretty solid and resolved to me. Are many people using this for lives sites?
• The back-end uses bootstrap? I presume I can use anything on the front-end, I'm more into Foundation and sass. I can't imagine there would be any issues here but wanted to check.
• Performance - How is it with larger sites?
• Security - anything I need to know here?
• Learning curve - I haven't used Laravel. I'm planning to learn october on the job, good/bad idea?
• The only other CMS I'm considering is processwire, I wonder how this compares.

Any input on any of these issues would be very much appreciated. If it's already been discussed feel free to point me to links. Like I said a haven't spent much time researching this yet. Thanks

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• I have several live sites built on october. Just use good dev->staging->production deployment and testing.
• Used whatever you want for frontend.... no issues. Its soooo easy to go buy a $15 bootstrap theme and put it in... why use foundation (I am kidding :P. Use whatever you want.)
• Performance will be decent. That question is highly variable to server config/database/number of plugins/etc.. Our company site loads < 1s with SSL (ssl ads like 300-600ms for handshaking). Mess with HHVM if your super concerned.
• I don't know... its built on laravel so you get some security stuff from that.
• I learned laravel first. A lot of things make more sense if you know a little (just a little) laravel first.
• no idea how it compares to processwire :), sorry.

Feel free to hit me up on IRC, I'm on most days. Username is the same.

I just watched the video presentation of Processwire. It mimics one of the behaviours of ExpressionEngine CMS, no "révolution" on that, but damn, the templates using plain PHP with just short tags to get the data out ... that's so oldschool and outdated. :)

For the moment i'm discovering October, it have many valid and modern points, and also a lot of things to correct or get it to work somehow (as it's said, still Beta). If October could be more straitforward on CustomFields and otrer points, it could have a nice future.

that0n3guy said:

• Used whatever you want for frontend.... no issues. Its soooo easy to go buy a $15 bootstrap theme and put it in... why use foundation (I am kidding :P. Use whatever you want.)

Ha not hating on you or trying to start a debate here, but in his defense Foundation is actually look pretty awesome these days. Wish I knew it as well as I knew Bootstrap (that being said not like CSS frameworks are hard to learn)