October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework where it claims that clients don't build websites, developers do. This is true! for anything much bigger than a personal blog, the end user of a CMS is rarely a developer and most often clients hire someone to build their website. October platform is build based on this concept, and focused on being a developer-first platform with an assumption that developers have basic knowledge in HTML, CSS and PHP. It is a mix of file based and database driven CMS.