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About October CMS

Content management systems divide into the ones an end user picks and the ones a developer picks. October CMS belongs firmly to the second group. Installation assumes a command line, templates are written in Twig, and the whole platform sits on the Laravel framework, which means that behind almost every site running it there is somebody who writes PHP for a living.

The consequence for anyone reading this list is that the site owner is rarely the decision maker. An agency or a freelance developer chose the platform, built the site, and in many cases still maintains it. A vendor selling hosting, monitoring, backups or security tooling into this population is really selling to a far smaller number of implementers than the site count suggests, so the useful move is clustering the list by builder fingerprints and shared infrastructure rather than mailing it flat.

Geography reflects a platform that spread through developer communities rather than through hosting bundles. Of the 19,214 sites we detect as of October 2026, 11,495 sit in United States, and the top level domain we record most often is .com. A commercially registered, English speaking concentration of that weight is what a professionally built site base looks like, and it has a different shape from the long tail of country domains that mass market platforms produce.

Released in 2014, and carrying Proprietary in our licence field, the project stayed small and coherent rather than growing a sprawling ecosystem, and the practical effect is unusually homogeneous sites. A marketplace exists but is modest. Components written for the individual project are the norm. For a competitor, homogeneity means a migration path can be productized once and sold many times. For a security researcher, it means a single core weakness applies to a population that can actually be enumerated. The licence value in our record is out of date, because the vendor's own pricing page now requires a paid project licence to run a site in production and keeps the source public without making it free to deploy.

Enumeration is the part a lookup service cannot help with. Anyone can identify the platform behind one domain in moments. The questions that matter here are population questions: how large the installed base is, where it sits, which sites pair the platform with commercial hosting or with the payment and analytics stacks that indicate a real business behind them, and which of them look abandoned. An export answers those in one pass, filtered and joined, rather than assembled one domain at a time.