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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.

EDIT: So many great replies here to triage. Thanks everyone. I'll keep you posted!

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[–] rezz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Randos will not edit. There may be users who edit in the future, but it's not a "register and edit" sort of thing. It's more of a living breathing guide, that has the flow of Wikipedia (as well as the SEO benefits--it's the type of information people will search and want to find, and land on it in this format to learn and reference).

Really it's better to think of it as SEO-optimized wiki formatting. There may be editors in the future, but not in the near future, as a lot of the content will be covered. If there's editing, it'll be submission-based and approved or denied.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might try Fossil then. It uses something like 2MB of server ram instead of gigabytes. It makes me wonder where we all went wrong.

[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 1 week ago

fossil is made by actual engineers, maybe we should follow that path