Office documents
Etherpad
Real-time collaborative text editor.
open source self-hostable Etherpad Foundation · ?The classic shared notepad; tiny to host.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Office documents” with it
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 | Etherpad Foundation (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 256 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Google Workspace |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 18,518 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Nodejs, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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