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Kentico vs DNN: What are the differences?

What is Kentico? *An all-in-one ASP.NET CMS *. It is a web content management system for building websites, online stores, intranets, and Web 2.0 community sites. It uses ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server for development via its Portal Engine, using Visual Studio, or through Microsoft MVC. Kentico is also compatible with Microsoft Azure.

What is DNN? Open source web content management platform (CMS). It is the leading open source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. The product is used to build professional looking and easy-to-use commercial websites, social intranets, community portals, or partner extranets. Containing dynamic content of all types, DNN sites are easy to deploy and update.

Kentico and DNN belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kentico are:

  • MVC Page Builder
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Multilingual Contentl

On the other hand, DNN provides the following key features:

  • User Management
  • User Profile Management
  • Role Management

DNN is an open source tool with 623 GitHub stars and 510 GitHub forks. Here's a link to DNN's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is DNN?

    It is the leading open source web content management platform (CMS) in the Microsoft ecosystem. The product is used to build professional looking and easy-to-use commercial websites, social intranets, community portals, or partner extranets. Containing dynamic content of all types, DNN sites are easy to deploy and update.

    What is Kentico?

    It is a web content management system for building websites, online stores, intranets, and Web 2.0 community sites. It uses ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server for development via its Portal Engine, using Visual Studio, or through Microsoft MVC. Kentico is also compatible with Microsoft Azure.

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