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Serverless Headless CMS by Webiny — Go serverless with Webiny and save 60-80% on hosting costs
Stop paying for stuff you don't use. A big chunk of your server resources aren't utilized. With Webiny adopt serverless and save 60-80% on your cloud hosting bill and on infrastructure operations costs. Forget worrying about flash crowds and uptime.
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@eliasisrael Thank you Eli! Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions.
Looks great. But any plans to work with a different database? I dislike mongoDB for numerous reasons but in light of your product byline of “Stop paying for stuff you don't use” it seems a strange choice.
@thetwopct Yes, we're working on adding additional databases to the list. It's hard work, but a lot of users asked for it, so we want to make the community happy. What database in particular would you like to see?
@svenalhamad Anything really. I just won't use Mongo. PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, couchDB I guess are all good alternatives 👍
Hey ProductHunt! I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Webiny Headless CMS.
So why you need another Headless CMS? For a change, with this one, you won't worry about scaling, installing, configuring and managing infrastructure. On top of it, Webiny cuts your cloud hosting bill by anywhere between 60% and 80%! You will stop paying for resources you do not use. Now, who doesn't want all that?!
Here is a quick overview of some of the features:
✅ Powerful content modelling UI
✅ GraphQL API
✅ Multi-language support
✅ 100% Javascript
✅ Microservices architecture
✅ Support for multiple environments and aliases
... and much more.
How is this different than Strapi? Well, Strapi runs on the "traditional" infrastructure, such as virtual machines and similar. That infrastructure is hard to maintain and scale without hiring a big team of expert engineers. Since Webiny runs on serverless infrastructure such as AWS Lambda, it can scale to handle millions of requests out of the box. No need for any performance, devops or network engineers. The other beautiful thing is that with serverless you pay per request. You don't need to heavily over-provision your infrastructure ahead of peak demand events, such as Black Friday and similar.
How is this different than Contentful or GraphCMS? Webiny is open-source and you host it yourself. This means you own and have full control over your data. On top of that, you can build custom apps and change any part of the system. Unlike Contentful or GraphCMS where they are a black-box SaaS product which you can't modify.
How is this different than Netlify CMS: Netlify CMS is a great solution but it lacks many of the features you'll find in Webiny. Netlify CMS caters for more simple sites. For example, a feature like content modeling is done in code and configuration files. There is no multi-language support, no environments and aliases. Managing users and permissions is very rudimentary.
The whole Webiny team is here to answer any of your questions. We hope you give Webiny a try and let us know what you think.
@svenalhamad This looks pretty fantastic. I've been keeping tabs on Webiny for a while now and sort of waiting for the CMS to be released. I think Webiny has a huge potential for growth. I remember early on as a core developer of WordPress — what put WP on the edge. Feel the same here. Makes me super excited to give it a try. If y'all ever need help, holler at https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais
@mrahmadawais Also, if you do give Webiny a spin, let me know your comments. I'm sure we could learn a lot.
@svenalhamad I've used Netlify CMS, but have no experience with the other services you mentioned. I haven't taken a look at your website yet, but reading the comments on PH I've gotten the impression that your product would let me have something like 'my own Netlify CMS' that is going to run on AWS, correct?
@anna_0x In essence yes. So Webiny is deployed to your own AWS account and it runs on top of services like AWS Lambda, Api Gateway and S3. The database we support today is MongoDB Atlas, which is also a fully managed service that is deployed to the same AWS region as other services.
I really love the concept! The future is serverless indeed. Now the work starts about how I can make this work along Vercel and FaunaDB 🤔
@fillipvt Vercel at the moment lacks a lot of plugins to be able to run Webiny on top of it. Once their ecosystem evolves we might explore it. FaunaDB is something that can be integrated by writing an adapter for our DB layer. Let me know if you need details. It's best to join our community slack and discuss it there: https://www.webiny.com/slack
Hello, Sven.
Congratulations on your launch. You look to have a good product in a competitive marketplace. How would you compare Webiny to Sanity, which is probably the class-leader in user content modelling, and also offers, among others, self-hosting?
I'd be careful of speaking ill of your competitors. It looks cheap from a marketing perspective. If your product's good, let it speak for itself. I'd also try to align your core benefits - in your introductory post above you write that Webiny benefits from being open-source, while on your website open-source is portrayed as being negative.
@mattheslington Hey Matt, thanks for the feedback. Here are some of my thoughts:
1. Regarding Sanity - I can't say I'm familiar with them. But it doesn't look like they are running on top of a serverless infrastructure, which means there will be higher costs involved for operating and running such a website. They do have a SaaS offering, but then again you end up with the same limitations you'll find with Contentful and GraphCMS.
2. Speaking ill, I wouldn't put it like that :) I made a technical comparison between different products so people know how we differentiate and what are the cases when to use Webiny, and maybe also figure out when not to use Webiny.
I hope you give Webiny a try!
Disclaimer: I am involved in the project from start, currently in the advisor role.
Having worked with almost every CMS there is, testing landing pages, building funnels etc - I know the pain of having a solution that simply doesn't fit end-users needs. Add a technical debt to some of the platforms out there, add skyrocketing cloud costs and slow time-to-market, complexity of the new devices and experiences, I think Webiny has a bright spot in the serverless marketplace in years to come. Give it a try ;)
@goran_candrlic Goran thank you for your ongoing support and sharing your reflection on the current challenges in the market!
@tommalcolmson Hi Tom - for now it’s only AWS, but we have plans to add support for GCP and Azure at a later stage. We’re also exploring potentially also support Netlify.
?makers Today I'm using Cockpit CMS which I feel is fairly similar. I like your pitch, but all this serverless makes me wonder: what do I need from AWS to make this working (minimum). And then, how is that serverless? Maybe you need to educate us a bit more why and how to do this. Sold on the premise, not sure how to execute.
@axtg @axtg Hi Xander, thanks for the comment. Webiny uses a few different services from AWS, that's Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront and S3. All you need to provide to Webiny is your AWS user and our deploy process with automatically create and configure all those resources for you. It's serverless because there are no servers you need to install, manage, scale or operate in general. Also, check out this article on our docs portal:
https://docs.webiny.com/docs/faq...
Hello,
Congratulations on the Launch.
I wanted to ask about User sign in process and does Webiny offer email and password login , and Social Login like Strapi or not ?
and can you provide more details about access rules , as some of the documentation is still not available
@ahmed_kassem1 Webiny uses AWS cognito as a user pool, you can easily extend our sign in process and add support for social logins. We don’t have a plugin out of the box, but creating one is fairly simple. Give us a ping on our github in case you need help with this. As for the ACL it’s quite powerful and has many features like roles, scopes and groups allowing you to tune access to a great deal of detail. Some of the docs are still in progress but the team is happy to answer any questions in the meantime.
Not something I've tried before, but this looks promising! Left some annotated comments on your landing page here too in relation to conversion optimisation - https://app.usebubbles.com/1b21e...
Congratulations on the launch . I was evaluating couple of Graphql CMS like GraphqlCMS and Sanity , Do you have a comparison on the same for us ? @svenalhamad
@jos_k Hey Jos, in general, there are two categories how I see it, the open-source category and the saas category, so the above comparison should still apply to solutions Sanity and similar. On a more in-depth technical level, I'm not very familiar with a solution like sanity so can't really comment on that.
Never made any experiences with Strapi, Contentful, GraphCMS oder Netlify before. Heard of them but never used them. It might be your product that I'll take a look at betimes. It looks great!
@xreeel Thanks Marvin! If you do spend some time with it. Let me know what you think and how we can make it better for the whole community!
@endymion1818 Thank you Ben for the kind words and also for sticking with us through many iterations and changes we had to make!
@narayandreamer No plans for AppSync at the moment. Any particular reason why you need AppSync? Webiny comes with Apollo Federation.
I love this idea. I dont prefer mongoDB and wish it supports dynomoDB. Also, instead of using Apolla GraphQL, AppSync could be used. But I completely understand that this is user choice and you cannot make everyone happy. Great work team.
@muthukumaran DynamoDB is something we're currently evaluating - stay tuned (or subscribe to our newsletter). AppSync is not something we're looking at right now. Any particular reason why you would want AppSync?
@svenalhamad Because I don't want to install and maintain Apollo (dedicated EC2 for running Appolo additional cost).
@muthukumaran With Webiny you don’t need a dedicated EC2, you don’t need any EC2 machines. Webiny runs Apollo inside a Lambda function, so zero maintenance and you pay per request.
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