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      <p>A few times in the last couple of years, I've come across companies or agencies writing their own CMSes or frameworks.</p>

      <p>Not as a learning exercise, which I think every Developer does at some point as part of their learning, but to host production applications.</p>

      <p>With so many free and open source options - there are Drupal, WordPress, Symfony and Laravel just in the PHP ecosystem - why would people use custom or proprietary CMSes or frameworks?</p>

      <p>One reason is <a href="/daily/2024/12/30/domain-names">vendor lock-in</a>.</p>

      <p>If someone is locked into your CMS, framework or hosting platform, it's difficult for them to move away.</p>

      <p>That's one of the main benefits of open source software.</p>

      <p>There isn't just one company that provides services for it and customers can choose who they want to work with.</p>

              
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      <p>A few times in the last couple of years, I've come across companies or agencies writing their own CMSes or frameworks.</p>

      <p>Not as a learning exercise, which I think every Developer does at some point as part of their learning, but to host production applications.</p>

      <p>With so many free and open source options - there are Drupal, WordPress, Symfony and Laravel just in the PHP ecosystem - why would people use custom or proprietary CMSes or frameworks?</p>

      <p>One reason is <a href="/daily/2024/12/30/domain-names">vendor lock-in</a>.</p>

      <p>If someone is locked into your CMS, framework or hosting platform, it's difficult for them to move away.</p>

      <p>That's one of the main benefits of open source software.</p>

      <p>There isn't just one company that provides services for it and customers can choose who they want to work with.</p>

              
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