What is the easiest way for a non-techie to use/host sites like Ghost and Mediawiki?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.selfhostcat.com/post/301165
I see Ghost has a paid option but I am unaware of such an option for Mediawiki.
You can selfhost MediaWiki usingntheir official Docker image.
Yes but I’m asking for people who can’t do this. I want to share the platform but if they can’t run a server idk how to help them
Maybe you can set it up for them? It’s really the easiest way + it does not cost anything that’s not paid for already anyways (electricity and an Internet connection).
Same with Ghost, but Docker may be a bit too involved for non-techies.
Nice find! Thank you so much
Looks like https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog can hist both.
Why do you want to host them? Usually the difficult parts are necessary because they're needed to have the level of control, security, and privacy that is the reason a person is self-hosting in the first place. And there are not enough simple standards for running software securely so you do need to learn some nerd stuff to do it right - but no so much that it is impossible for a beginner.
I’m not asking for me. I’m asking if I want to share these resources to my coworkers who want to host websites and wikis for academia.
For academia I recommend having an IT cost center responsible for the hosting infrastructure, namely virtualization. Then let people have VPSes (or similar) as needed to run docker-based services. This makes it easier to handle network and security concerns. Most large universities already offer something like this to students and faculty.
Use Ghost to generate a static site and you can host it lots of places for free. Cloudflare Pages, Digitalocean, Surge...etc.
Otherwise just kick up stack and serve for yourself.