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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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[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 1 week ago

This means your pages would retain the classic wiki change log, so that it can all be generated from a Git repo that's small enough to keep on a floppy disk.

That already exists: https://ikiwiki.info/ . It is by default a bit more raw than dokuwiki but does the same thing in the end.