yea, why not? You don't scam anybody. You are using a service that can be used especially for that and you deliver the requested product to your customer. So Win-Win, right?

Nice

Ok then I'll use it

Btw how should I host it?

Can I use vercel for that?

I mean for hosting the Tina provider

it looks like you can host it directly tina.io inside the cloud

Keep in mind, that you can't use the API, when you have a free plan

I don't want to pay for hosting it here

I have a vps

I think it would be possible to use all the features in vps

normally I think so too, but I couldn't find anything related to self hosting tina cms

@Australian Freshwater Crocodile what do you think about strapi: https://strapi.io/?
This can be self hosted and also cloud hosted. It's a very good CMS. Was my first cms ^^

Yeah I've heard of it

Lemme try it out too

I had this mindset to always create the cms myself in admin dashboard and it was really stupid

and hard

Time for switching to a real cms

@Australian Freshwater Crocodile if you really want to have your own, then you should just host a database on your VPS and use your database with (for example) drizzle. It's waaaay easier and normally faster as well

Wdym? what about cms itself?

Like using the db in my vps with cms like Strapi or Tina?

get this:

version: '3.9'

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:16.2
    container_name: db
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=xxx
      - POSTGRES_USER=default
    volumes:
      - db_volume:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    command: -p 5432 -c idle_session_timeout=60000

  pgadmin:
    image: dpage/pgadmin4:8.4
    container_name: pgadmin
    restart: always
    environment:
      - PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL=root@example.com
      - PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=xxx
      - PGADMIN_LISTEN_PORT=8080
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - pgadmin_volume:/var/lib/pgadmin

volumes:
  db_volume:
  pgadmin_volume:

Copy this code into your docker-compose.yml and run the command docker-compose up -d and you have a ✨ database ✨

yea, then you have your DB and drizzle and don't need strapi or tina anymore

Nice

Yeah but I still need to code the content editing page in my admin dashboard right?

if it's just MDX, then you can also just create the mdx file and it will be automatically available

I don't have problem with this but most of the clients doesn't know what is markdown and how to use it

ah but they know how to use strapi or tina cms?

If it were up to me I'd use normal static pages and then rebuild it everytime

Isn't it straight-forward?

Oh btw how do you authenticate cms?

Like allowing only the admin to edit content

Do they have a builtin auth system or I need to set it up?

I can only talk for strapi now and its... yea haha, no not really. If you configured everything and tell your customer "just go to this page" he may delete something that shouldnt be deleted or creates stuff that he shouldnt create. For example like new fields required fields in your dataschema what will cause, that all the uploaded content will run into an error as the required field is not filled. There are serveral things, that can create a headache for you. You should really think about it

damn

What do you suggest then for clients?

I searched up abt strapi and it works with api
What If I make an admin dashboard and only include the things the client needs? (Not using the strapi's builtin dashboard)

Well then lets get to it🔥 🙏