A year ago I started building a CMS because I had three options for client work and none fit: WordPress — works, but 250+ plugin CVEs/week (Patchstack 2024). I patch sites every week. Tired of it. Contentful / Sanity — modern, but $300/mo entry pricing for SMB use cases. Vendor lock is real. Strapi / Payload — solid, but Node-only. I'm a PHP/Laravel shop. So I built UnfoldCMS — a self-hosted Laravel CMS that ships as a single product, not a framework you assemble. This post is a tour of what's actually in there. Not the marketing version — the "here are the 183 admin pages" version. If you're picking a CMS in 2026, this is the kind of breakdown I wish vendors actually published. The stack, briefly Laravel 11 + Inertia 2 + React 19 + TypeScript Tailwind v4 + shadcn/ui (50+ components) MySQL / MariaDB Spatie Media Library, Spatie Permission (RBAC), Spatie Activity Log Runs on $5/mo Hetzner VPS at ~80MB RAM idle The shadcn + Tailwind theming side I covered in my previous post .…