You can't deploy a concrete5 site without a database.

You might be able to develop a basic site locally or somewhere else using concrete5 and then take a 'static' snapshot of it (using something likehttp://sitesucker.us/mac/mac.html)... and put that up as a site, but it would probably require a lot of fiddling to get right... and everything dynamic like forms and rss feeds won't work.

...and then every time you wanted to make simple changes to the site you'd need to go through the whole process again to update things. My opinion would it really wouldn't be worth the hassle when there are lots of inexpensive hosting plans out there with mysql. One of the main reasons to use concrete5 (or any other good cms) is that you can log in to fix and adjust things easily.

Thanks for the info.

I'm looking for a CMS that I can use to prepare static sites for use with a non-traditional server that has extremely limited resources available (think 'embedded').

So it may be that Concrete5 is not suitable for my use.

Well, as a matter of fact, you can :

Just use SQLitehttp://www.sqlite.org/ :)

Since c5 is based on ADODB, and ADODB support sqlite, that should work (although it is untested).

Good luck.

Concrete5 might be made to work with SQLite in the future, but for now it only works with/supports MySQL.