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CloudCannon Overview
What is CloudCannon?

CloudCannon is a content management system (CMS) that offers a unique and efficient way to manage and publish websites. It supports a drag-and-drop interface, with a built-in custom code functionality, making it stand out from the competition. Additionally, CloudCannon has a collaborative team editing feature and integrated analytics, making it an all-in-one platform for website design, development, and management.

Company CloudCannon Limited
Year founded 2011
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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Languages English
CloudCannon Features
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Asset Management
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Content Archiving
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Content Personalization
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45 CloudCannon Reviews
4.8 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 17, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
JV
Joost V.
Software Engineer
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"The best CMS for SSGs"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

It is a low config one-stop-shop. It works with multiple SSG's and has everything included you could wish for, like hosting on a CDN, form handling, statistics and more. They recently added support/developed a smart search solution. These guys know SSG's in and out.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

Nothing really... Amazing software! And they keep improving it! They recently added new SSG's and added DAM integration. Even their support is really good. The only negative point I can think of is that there are sometimes (small) bugs in the CMS editor because of their continuing development (which causes a bug every now and then).

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a user friendly CMS for a SSG. With CloudCannon your clients/marketing department can update the content of an SSG website without programming knowledge. This is essential for agencies and programmers.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 04, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SS
Shovan S.
Director
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"Reliable hosting for headless CMS"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

I host over 100 websites on CloueCannon, they have never disappointed. These are what I like - Customer support - Product Relibility - Easy of use - Regular update - Seperating workspace per client and teams I have to say over the years CloudCannon has started supporting various headless CMS this has been great for me to explore and use just one platform to do the Build, management and deployment. Headless CMS either have no content editors or very complicated content editors. CloudCannon sits in the sweet spot, it's easy for our clients to up date content and easy for edirtos to make certain sections CMS editable.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

As headless platform it works great. I am keen to explore their API based deployment, that's one things that's missing right now.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudCannon is one platform through which I can host all my headless CMS projects, regardless of the size. It's easy for developers to work with and it integrates well with GIT. It's also simple editable tools for the clients, this removes us as being a bottle neck.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 01, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
CK
Candy K.
Co Founder
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"CloudCannon has made us very successful (financially)"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

It's really great being able to host unlimited websites. As an entrepreneur and web developer this is incredibly valuable.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

There is sooooo much we can do with CloudCannon, however learning about all the possibilities means reading through pages and pages of documents. This is extremely draining for people with reading disabilities. CloudCannon would go from 9/10 to 20/10 if there was an online course we could purchase that showed us step-by-step how to implement Bookshop, Jekyll, editable ecom templates, etc.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

They are always improving something... and I'm sure they will roll out with an online CloudCannon course in the future too.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 19, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AE
Andrew E.
Principal Engineer
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"CloudCannon is great. Can't recommend it enough."
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

CloudCannon gives quite a bit more control to stakeholders than a headless CMS would, but doesn't require that they learn HTML/CSS. It also lets devs write code using the tools they know best. It's great when you've got custom requirements, a team of reasonably capable stakeholders, and a good dev. Unless I were using a stock template and on a project with no special or custom requirements, I'd pick CloudCannon over any of the site builders or headless CMSs any day. The dev and support team are also super capable. Any time I ran into issues, they worked with me to resolve them quickly. I believe I was the first person to use AlpineJS with CloudCannon, so we got to investigate and solve some novel bugs together with that. I'm a huge fan of CloudCannon.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

Site building on file-save can be a little bit slow, especially when you're making a bunch of little changes. I think they're still coming into their own in terms of documentation and in terms of finding the balance between convention and configuration. I don't see any of these as meaningful impediments. The dev team has a really ambitious road map in front of them, and they do a great job of listening to and acting on feedback.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudCannon provides a clickable WYSIWYG interface for editing static sites (e.g. those built with Hugo, Jekyll or Eleventy). It slots neatly between Wordpress/Squarespace (and other block-based site-builders) and tools like Ghost (or other headless CMSs), and lets stakeholders immediately see the effect of their changes, and lets devs go at full speed. There's also the Bookshop component framework, which enables some really dynamic page-building. I've found this is the sweet spot - my stakeholders can make changes to content (and sometimes layout) without needing to know coding, without needing to involve me, and without fear of breaking things. I can empower my stakeholders and focus on doing my best work. We have far, far less back-and-forth, I'm no longer a bottleneck, and things just work.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 14, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
VB
V B.
Web Developer, Owner
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"CloudCannon is a an excellent platform for website development - the best in my experience by far."
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

The platform is undergoing constant development with workflow improvements and integration with more tools. The CloudCannon support is top-notch.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

No downsides or concerns for me in using CloudCannon.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using the static site generation approach makes my website development a lot simpler and faster and generally gives me more control over the whole process.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 14, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Sil V.
Full Stack Webdeveloper Ui/Ux Designer
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"Editing in CloudCannon is so easy, my clients just know how to work with it right away."
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

Amazing support, they always know what they're talking about. Rapid innovation, I keep getting surprised. Easy to use for clients, which saves a lot of time.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

None. Cloudcannon is for sure my favorite company in the web development industry.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making editing easy. This saves me time explaining things to clients. It's an all-in-one platform for Jamstack websites. This saves me time with the setup.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 19, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AR
Andry R.
Product Manager
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"Dynamic and easy to use"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

It helps me quickly, easily and efficiently instantiate web pages for the company's clients. It is an easy-to-use content manager for content managers and IT technicians for website maintenance.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

The learning curve is wide to integrate all the tools and scalability that the platform has. The content editor is slow. It takes a few seconds to save a post with no images. The editor seems to hog my CPU (it kills my Firefox–my go to browser). Uncomfortably similar to how Divi (popular WordPress page builder) can choke my computer resources. I ran some performance tests and discovered that the Divi page builder editor actually takes up less CPU than CloudCannon’s content editor. I didn’t think this was possible!

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Transparency, I can see all the source HTML I need to see. Local Development Environment, my live CloudCannon sites, GitHub code repositories, development repositories, and development site are always in sync.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 16, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Tom H.
Developer
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"Ready, Aim, Fire. CloudCannon is that easy!"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

My favourite thing about CloudCannon is its ability to integrate fully with my git source control. Any changes I make on the CloudCannon app are pushed to my repository and vice-versa. This means my website is always up to date, and regardless of where I make changes or how my team grows, I can rely on CloudCannon to keep on top of everything. Additionally, the editor allows you to make changes easily and the selection of pre-made templates can get you up and running quickly with a very professional looking website.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

The only downside to CloudCannon's source control integration is the way it pushes every single change to your repository. This is useful when it comes to tracking changes and keeping a record of EVERYTHING, but as a fan of larger commits, I dislike how this feature has turned my commit history into a barrage of one-line code changes. This is literally my only issue with CloudCannon, so if you can get over a crowded commit history, this is the product for you!

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of my favourite problems to solve with CloudCannon is hosting a free personal github.io page. The integration with my github account means that any changes I make are instantly reflected on my external facing site, and using the CloudCannon web app I can easily make changes to my site, or add blog posts on the go.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 31, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
RB
Rutvik B.
Founder
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"Manage and Host Your Static Website Content"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

It provides visual editing capability which I found one of the best features of it. It provides different content options which help to change and update the content on the website. It helps to create the form which is an awesome feature.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

I personally do not dislike anything in it.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to automate the website deployment and update the website content. It provides a collaboration feature that benefits my team member to work simultaneously. It provides good hosting for websites with CDN.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 08, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
JK
Jonas K.
Founder
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"CMS for Hugo"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

You are being met with a beautiful interface. There are a lot of features and a good helper getting from another static CMS. Fantastic support that helped me get from forestry.io to CloudCannon. Responsive company when given feedback on functionality.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

You will benefit from learning about cloudcannon.config.yml - it will make your editing experience a lot better. But it requires some learning. It would be nice with some examples of common UI elements like a gallery.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need a solution that doesn't require us to maintain and update a CMS every day, week, or month or be doomed. A CMS is easy to understand for everyone, no matter their background is a must.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 04, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Kim S. avatar
Kim S.
Owner
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"CloudCannon adds hosting, automation, and management to static site generators"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

Not provided

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

Not provided

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 16, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
RC
Ricky C.
Co Founder
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"CloudCannon makes it easy to setup a Jamstack site and collaborate on content"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

Generous hosting tier Customizable and powerful editing experience Tons of features related to (re)building sites based upon commits, timers, and API hooks. The form integrations are killer too!

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

Prices have increased, but it's still a good value for the money. I'm also not aware of the improvements their making to support more platforms -- first-class BridgetownRB support would be stellar!

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes it easy for me to customize the editing experience for my clients and build websites quick in my favorite static site frameworks. I'm able to keep support costs low and maintain a number of support contracts with must customers.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 15, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Alun W. avatar
Alun W.
Developer
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"Feature-full seemless static hosting"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

There are frequent software updates and feature releases. There's a user-friendly interface and highly customisable editing pages for clients. Enjoying the increased support for multiple static site generators.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

Most initial drawbacks have improved over time - occasional slow build time has sped up and error messaging has really improved. Customisation can still be a little tricky.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Cloudcannon to host secure static websites for clients who require independent editing access but not the overheads and security drawbacks of full blown CMSes. A consistent platform for multiple clients saves us time and costs.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 22, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
JV
Jasper V.
Mgr. Web Optimization
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"Easy to use CMS. Their chat helpdesk is also very helpful"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

Ease of use and finding issues in their output logs when there's an issue with the build.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

From time to time, their helpdesk will take up to several hours to respond

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use CloudCannon CMS for several of our web properties and benefit daily from its ease of use and rapid deployment capabilities.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 10, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Richard M. avatar
Richard M.
Lead Software Development Engineer
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"Develop and edit with CloudCannon"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

It is that I can synchronize my entire static site or start with a spreadsheet from scratch, you can connect all your digital content, if you don't have your files ready you can explore everything that this content manager has to give, since it has spreadsheets ready to be used. It allows you to add all the environment variables, it has excellent command lines and a totally customized plugin, you can invite your team to do a collaboration, it allows you to view all your content from your website, and it helps you to be able to prepare your entire team to be able to direct all the more complex content, the free plan has an excellent allowance of build time.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

I have been implementing it for a little less than a year, there is really nothing that I have disliked about this content developer so far, as it has excellent tutorials and resources that help you throughout the process, it allows you to use Jamstack, it which is excellent as this tool is continually pushing its limits.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudcannon is a platform that has an excellent library of completely free themes and worksheets to help you start with your project in Jamstack, it allows you to learn through tutorials with Hugo and Jekyll, this will help you develop all your knowledge, you can also explore all Jamstack tools.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 10, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Roxana F. avatar
Roxana F.
Research Department Specialist
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"Develop all your content"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

Cloudcannon is an excellent platform where you can bring your entire team together to create all your content from a single place, this tool offers you an incredible plan to develop all your projects for free since it allows you to synchronize, edit, create and host, all your personal static site, to start on this platform you do not need a credit card, since as I mentioned before it is completely free if you want to increase the limit of that free plan, it does have different payment options, but it is not strictly necessary since using it for free you can enjoy all its functions, it has compatibility with Jekyll, Hugo and Eleventy, and it helps you to carry out your project with high quality spreadsheets, with Cloudcannon you create a quite fun experience.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

There is really nothing that I dislike about this professional Cloudcannon editor, since it has an excellent plan to use it from $ 0, it has allowed me to synchronize my files and choose templates that are already ready to be used.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudcannon has excellent tools to manage all your content, it allows you to schedule your entire workflow and your publications, it has excellent unlimited staging sites, and you can synchronize bi-directionally with its repository.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 06, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Cristina C. avatar
Cristina C.
Microinformatics Technician
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"Edit professionally"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

In Cloudcannon, you can gather your entire work team in one place, since it has an excellent interface that is easy to use and simple, you do not need higher studies to be able to perform professional editions, it allows you to develop with CMS, using An excellent Git workflow, Cloudcannon, allows you to make quick sites to attract users, which can give you an excellent rating, it has visual editors which help you to organize and all the content that is published.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

There is nothing that I dislike about Cloudcannon, because it allows me to professionally manage all my sites, providing excellent results to get good grades every day, creating a good workflow using Git providers like GitHub, GitLab, etc. .

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Now I can keep all the developers and publishers in sync with the Git, this synchronization allows you to keep everyone on the same page, always counting on excellent Git like GitHub and Bitbucket which are cloud-based, and the GitLab which you can use in the cloud and also self-hosted. Cloudcannon has excellent gif so that editors can reduce, branch and create detach requests without the need to understand about Git, as this can be handled in Cloudcannon.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 03, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Gustavo Antonio O. avatar
Gustavo Antonio O.
Human Resources Director
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"Gather your team in one place"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

Cloudcannon allows you to gather your team in one place, it has an excellent interface that is very practical to use and allows you to make professional edits, Cloudcannon has a bad CMS developer that you can perform an excellent workflow in the core, find everything in one place, allows you to market sites that attract all users creating an excellent ranking and providing good results every day, it has excellent content editors which allows you to manage all your web content, using a visual editor, to ensure which published item is indicated.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

There is really nothing to dislike about Cloudcannon because it has excellent professional management for your website, it allows you to develop your site and sync it with your favorite Git files.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

Now I can develop my website and sync it with a git provider of my choice, I can get a great connection with Jekyll, Eleventy or Hugo, and offer the fast sites with Cloudflare and AWS.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 09, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
JP
Jon P.
Marketing Consultant
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"Dependable, fast-moving, great customer service."
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

I love CloudCannon because of how easy it is to customize their CMS. New features are constantly being added, and even though things break every now and then, the helpfulness of their customer support means you never have to worry.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

The support documentation isn't always up to date, and the recent price increase was substantial. In my opinion, client access to the CMS could be more flexible: I'd love to be able to grant access to, say, DNS settings for some clients.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

A cost-effective, scalable way to host client websites built on Jekyll & JAMstack technology.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 10, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Highly customizable headless cms"
What do you like best about CloudCannon?

Simplicity, we are using Cloudcannon as we know jekyll. They make it so simple for our clients.

What do you dislike about CloudCannon?

The frequency of updates is huge; sometimes, we cannot follow up.

What problems is CloudCannon solving and how is that benefiting you?

It simplifies how clients can update the website. We can have a custom layout on website and we can make those custom editable by marketing person.