In this blog post we will show you how to install Pico CMS on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx. Pico is a flat-file CMS released under the MIT license, with no database and administration backend and is an effective solution for small websites. The main advantages of a flat-file CMS systems are simplicity, portability, security, speed and version control. Without a database Pico CMS stores content in files and folders. To create a new page in Pico CMS you need to simply create a new .md (markdown) file in the “content” folder. In case you never heard of markdown, it is a simple text-based markup language that can be converted to HTML. This guide should work on other Linux Cloud VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04 Cloud VPS.