CarrotCake CMS (Webforms v4.X ASP.NET 3.5) has a small disk footprint, the core files take up less than 10MB (excluding your graphics/ template files) and will run on relatively minimal server specifications. CarrotCake CMS (MVC v5.X ASP.NET 4.5) also has a small disk footprint, the core files take up less than 20MB (excluding your graphics/ template files, nearly 10MB is the MVC and related DLLs) and will run on relatively minimal server specifications.

  • IIS 6-8.5, for Webforms, IIS 7-8.5 for MVC
  • .NET 3.5 SP1, for Webforms, .NET 4.5 for MVC
  • Webforms: Windows Server 2003/ 2008/ 2008R2. NB: If running on Server 2012, or later, we recomend selecting a .NET 4.0 app pool and make minor updates to the web.config (see msdn). MVC: Windows Server 2008/ 2008R2/ 2012, or later.
  • 1.25GB RAM for light/medium traffic sites, higher traffic sites should be at 2GB or more for webforms.  2GB or more for the MVC edition.
  • SQL 2008 or 2012 Express (Standard, Enterprise, etc. or R2 variants OK) for either version. The database must be configured for Case Insensitive Collation.

               

The administration/ content editor requires

  • Firefox 19-34+, IE 10+, or Chrome 19-40+
  • Desktop resolution of 1280x800 or better (1024x768 is passable, but may be a little cramped)

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