Has anyone had experience as to which CMS they prefer -- DotNetNuke or Kentico? One obvious difference is one is Open Source and free, while the other one has a free Community Edition but charges for the more robust edition (with advanced features) but I was wondering if there are any other major factors that I may not be aware of.
Thanks Bruce, can you share your reasons? The thing that scares me most is their pricing -- I have a couple of not-for-profit groups I'm helping out with website creation and they don't have the dollars to put into Kentico, but they want some of the features that are in the Professional ($999) or Enterprise ($1999) editions. I guess one possibility would be to create similar functionality (ie. booking system) by doing some development, but I have not spent a great deal of time researching that possibility -- obviously, some (if not all) of this functionality is available in DotNetNuke out of the box. Any suggestions or ideas?
DotNetNuke is a resource hog. You will run into problems with it on a host that runs your site in an isolated application pool with a fixed amount of memory available (like us). You can strip out many of the default options to make it use less memory, but an "out of the box" installation uses a lot of memory. We don't recommend it any longer for that reason. Each new release requires more resources, and it isn't really well suited for shared hosting.
Okay thanks. So I guess the answer is to purchase a license for Kentico to get them the features they want. I take it from your response that Kentico is better at resources (and consequently better performance I suppose)?
IMHO, I think DNN is too bloated. It can take like 30 seconds to compile on first load. I am not DNN expert, may be there's way to not load all the modules, but the default install is huge.
