This is not strictly self-hosted per se, but I am looking for your guidance.
I am standing up a wiki. I want it to use available FOSS wiki frameworks, all our self-hosted loving things.
However: the probably of this becoming a moderately trafficked page are high. So I also need to consider scale (cloudflare, captcha, auth, do I use Vercel? etc.), light-weightness (this is a Wiki but not too massive), and all that jazz. This is also someone who won’t like alt-wikis and is a very layman, mainstream audience. So “wikipedia but SEO friendly/article style” is also a plus. It will be less deeply linked than Wikipedia across pages, but is still a repository for info that will be revisited for its different components for a long time.
People with experience spinning up or hosting trafficked wiki pages: what do I do?
Thanks gang.
DokuWiki is great. Also very easy, straightforward and comes with a nice plugin ecosystem.
I guess the point about databases isn’t the entire story, though. The filesystem is a database as well. Doesn’t really matter whether you have a database system look up the article and return it, or have the filesystem find the file by it’s directories and name and return the data. That’s the same thing.