Zen + Unix Philosophies = Zenix Originally Tihnă (noun, feminine) is Romanian peace, quiet, rest, ease or tranquility. State of calm, leisure confort, unhuried atmosphere.
Host your own site without using big providers or complex services.
Write content,make content private, sell content(articles), or subscriptions
Build your own site, sell products/services.
Based on a project I built for Zenix in 2023-2024 with heavy refactoring and removing a lot of unneeded features.
If you would just want a static website without hassle see ZenDenPen. Similarly if you care about your privacy give PrivacyZen a try.
Amazing alternative to wordpress, aimed to allow anyone to have a website, personal company etc, easy editing
Philosophy
Zenix aims to combine Zen and Unix philosophies. For simplicity. Everything is a resource mantra. Resources can be one of markdown, html, template, zbor script
Lighweight and fast
The project is built in golang which means it's resulting binary is compiled and can run as is without requiring an interpreter.
Golang is fast is low on
Easy to selfhost
you don't need docker, kubernetes or a complicated system to host. You can easily host zenix on a $5/month VPS with systemd.
TODO video how to
Zbor Programming Language
zenix is meant is meant to be extensible by embedding a javascript/c-like programming language. You can add extra features, pages, plugins. Without having to recompile the project
Installation
Stripe
stripe login stripe listen --forward-to localhost:4008/stripewebhook
Github Notice
The original code repository is Fossil and is located at code.subl.im/zenix/ This is a read only mirror. You may opt to give a star, but please open any issues and discussions on the fossil repository. Thank you
What's up with version 3?
Version 1 was the previous attemplts in different programming languages. Version 2 was the system I'd built for Zenix/ZenDenPen and other such projects Version 3 is the complete refactoring thereof, treat it as work in progress;)
Copyright & Licensing
Copyright 2024-2026 Andrei Clinciu Licensed AGPLv2
If you want to use this for your company and require support or would like a business license which is not AGPLv2 please contact me at andrei+zenix@subl.im