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.
I have been having excellent luck with MkDocs Material. It’s very lightweight and has a ton of extensibility. Their documentation itself is written using their own software and gives you a great idea of what it has to offer: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
I use it both at work and for a game squadron wiki. It’s entirely written in Markdown so syntax is pretty quick to learn as well. Not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s become my new go to for documentation.