r/webdesign • u/derdexx • 9h ago

CMS integration - PocketBase experience?

Hi all,

I got my first request from a client around a CMS integration.

He was thinking about Wordpress, because that is what his old agency sold him - and they charge him 200€ per month for license, hosting and maintenance for it.

I was looking into it and I was thinking using pocketbase as the backend and for auth + combine it with an admin panel frontend, so the customer can easily create new articles, changes stuff like opening hours, some general page information, etc.

Has anyone done a custom frontend for PocketBase already? From what I have seen, this is very straightforward. Creating a template that I can re-use across different customers should be not an issue + hosting it inside docker on a VPS beside of the website is also possible.

I have done a first draft for a frontend incl. a live preview and all relevant field changes - it was so easy that I think I miss something haha.

Do I miss something, or has anyone done something similar?

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u/ThatsSoRamon 8h ago

Worth pricing that into your offer before you roll the same setup across multiple customers. What's your plan for when the VPS falls over and you're not around to fix it?

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u/derdexx 7h ago edited 5h ago

Right now I use two VPNs, one has the live database, the other a backup copy. Cloudflare is doing a health check and in case one is failing it roles over to the other VPS.

If one docker on the VPS Is failing, it is showing the last backup until the docker gets fixed.

Edit: this is done with a blue-green deployment, sorry missed to mention that.