Wiki & knowledge base
BookStack
Simple, organised documentation platform.
open source self-hostable BookStack (Dan Brown) · GBBooks, chapters and pages with a WYSIWYG editor; a favourite for team handbooks.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | BookStack (Dan Brown) (GB) |
|---|---|
| Licence | MIT |
| Self-hosting footprint | 256 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 2 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Confluence, Notion |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | stars · updated · PHP, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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