About the Engine

NEX1ON is a website engine that is installed on ordinary hosting in three steps and then lives without editing files: it updates from the panel, modules are switched on and off with one button, and the look is changed without stylesheet files.

What sites it is for

Any: a company site, a catalogue, news or a blog, a knowledge base, a forum, downloads, a shop. The engine's core does not know what kind of site you have — all content is brought by modules, and anything you do not need is switched off together with its addresses, settings and blocks.

What is inside

• More than twenty modules: pages, news, forum, shop, downloads, comments, custom sections (a builder), contact form, newsletter, polls, banners, tags, code colouring, welcome block, private messages, bookmarks, visits, forms, reviews, events, gallery, share buttons, bookings, "read also", cookies and analytics, questions and answers, a cabinet for apps. Each has its own page.
• Themes — Default, "Paper", "Storefront", "Journal", "Terminal", "Academy", "Cinema", "Community", "Business", "Events", "Studio". Colours, fonts, corner rounding, block layout, menus and the home page are edited from the panel, as a draft, with a preview. More about themes.
• Languages: the interface comes in seven languages — English, Russian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish and Lithuanian. Records have their own language and address; translations are linked, so search engines know which version is for whom.
• The panel, with a single search and filtering across all sections, bulk actions, a bin with restore, edit history, a change log and a security log.
• Updating from the panel: the engine learns about a new version on its own, shows a check screen (what is new, whether the server fits, what you changed in engine files), and after you press the button goes step by step: it downloads the archive, checks the signature, makes a database backup and updates the database. If the site stops answering after the files are replaced, the previous version comes back by itself.

What it needs

PHP 8.2 or newer, MariaDB 10.4+ or MySQL 8.0+. No Composer, Node or SSH is needed on the hosting: the engine is installed by unpacking an archive, and then the installer runs in the browser.

How security works

Files uploaded to the media library are given a name by the engine, checked by their content and rebuilt; nothing in the uploads folder is executed. Passwords are stored as hashes, sign-in can be protected with a second step, and guessing attempts are limited. Modules are not installed by uploading an archive through the panel — this decision was made deliberately and is not up for revision. "What protects the site" is shown as a list in the panel, with a link to where each item is fixed.

How to get it

All releases are in the release centre. The engine works without a licence too; a licence unlocks updates of the engine and the modules, and support — details in the licence agreement. Questions — on the forum.

Who makes it

The engine is made by the author of the NEX1ON project. The first version appeared on 6 September 2026; the development history is on the forum, and so is the roadmap.