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.

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services
- Nice find! Thank you so much
Looks like https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog can hist both.
You can selfhost MediaWiki usingntheir official Docker image.
https://hub.docker.com/_/mediawiki
- 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.
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.

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