LeafWiki Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy LeafWiki hosting and give your team a private, self-hosted Markdown wiki on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned LeafWiki v0.14.1 container, generates the admin password and signing secret, mounts a persistent data volume and publishes the wiki over HTTPS in minutes. It is one container, with SQLite and plain Markdown files on disk, and no database for you to run or tune.

Deploy your LeafWiki

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What is LeafWiki?

Self-hosted LeafWiki is a wiki delivered as a single Go binary, with SQLite and Markdown stored on disk. Its README aims it at engineers and self-hosters who want structured, long-lived documentation, with no Node.js, no Redis and no Postgres, and says it may fit people who found Wiki.js or Outline too much to operate. It offers a tree-structured page hierarchy, a Markdown editor and full-text search, and is MIT licensed. Its README calls it intentionally narrower than larger wiki systems.

On xCloud the template runs the ghcr.io/perber/leafwiki v0.14.1 image as a single container, pinned by immutable digest, with a leafwiki_data volume. HTTPS is published on your domain, and login is required until you enable public access. Revision history, link refactoring and email are upstream options that this template leaves off.

From Sign-Up to a Live Wiki In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted wiki normally means a container, a data volume, a signing secret, an admin account, a domain and a certificate before the first page. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick LeafWiki from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official LeafWiki container, pinned by immutable digest, as a single service with no separate database, mount the leafwiki_data volume for the SQLite database, Markdown pages, uploads and snapshots, generate the admin password and signing secret, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Write
Open your HTTPS LeafWiki URL and sign in as admin with the generated password from the protected credentials panel. Change the password from your profile, then create your first page with the + button in the sidebar.

Everything LeafWiki Does, On Your Own Server

LeafWiki runs in full here: a tree-structured Markdown wiki on your own domain, with its content kept in a volume you control.

Page Tree Navigation
Pages sit in an explicit hierarchy with manual ordering rather than a flat feed of notes, so a handbook keeps the shape you give it.
Markdown Editor
A built-in editor with live preview and autocomplete for internal page links, plus tables, task lists, callouts and Mermaid diagrams.
Full-Text Search
Search across titles and content, and filter by tags added to pages.
Roles And Private Access
Admin, editor and viewer roles, with login required to read or edit until you choose to enable public read access.
Attachments, ZIP Import And Snapshots
Upload attachments to pages, import Markdown from a ZIP archive, and rely on a daily snapshot ZIP written into the data volume.
No Database To Run
Content is SQLite metadata plus plain Markdown files on disk, so pages stay readable outside the app.

Everything You Need To Run Your Markdown Wiki 24/7

Managed hosting for LeafWiki, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

LeafWiki v0.14.1 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With LeafWiki

Document a system for a team
Organise pages in a tree and write them in Markdown, with full-text search to find them again.
Keep docs as plain files
Pages are Markdown files on disk beside a SQLite database, so your documentation is not locked inside a service.
Run a wiki with nothing to operate
One container, no external database and no cache service means little to maintain beyond backups.
Share a private knowledge base
Login is required by default, so only the accounts you create can read or edit pages unless you turn on public access.

LeafWiki vs Alternatives

Confluence and Notion: Confluence and Notion are hosted knowledge tools. LeafWiki's README says it is intentionally narrower and not meant as a full replacement for them; as a leafwiki alternative to confluence for runbooks or a small team handbook, it is MIT licensed and keeps pages as Markdown files on your own Cloud VPS.
Wiki.js: Wiki.js is a Node.js wiki with its own xCloud template. In a leafwiki vs wiki.js choice, LeafWiki's README stresses a single binary with SQLite and no extra services.
BookStack: BookStack organises content into shelves, books and pages, and has its own xCloud template. In a leafwiki vs bookstack comparison, LeafWiki uses a page tree stored as Markdown.
DokuWiki: DokuWiki is a file-based wiki with its own xCloud template. Compare its plugin ecosystem with LeafWiki's single binary and tree structure.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for LeafWiki hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if LeafWiki sits alongside other tools on the same server.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. LeafWiki itself is licensed by its maintainers under the MIT license.

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy LeafWiki on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Run Your Own Markdown Wiki?

LeafWiki on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does LeafWiki need?

The manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 256 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk, and QA measured about 10 MiB idle. The 6 GB tier sold here leaves plenty of room above that, and attachments are what grow the disk.

Is LeafWiki free and open source?

Yes. LeafWiki is MIT licensed, per the LICENSE file at the v0.14.1 tag, so there is nothing to pay for the software; the xCloud bill is the dedicated Cloud VPS, and your pages and attachments stay on your own volume.

Can you run LeafWiki with Docker?

Yes, and this is LeafWiki Docker hosting prepared for you: the template runs the official ghcr.io/perber/leafwiki v0.14.1 image as one container, pinned by immutable digest, with a data volume and HTTPS, making it LeafWiki cloud hosting on your own VPS.

What is the difference between LeafWiki and Wiki.js?

LeafWiki is a single Go binary with SQLite and Markdown on disk, per its README, while Wiki.js is a Node.js application. Wiki.js has its own xCloud page, so compare features, editors and how much you want to operate.

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How do I sign in to LeafWiki?

Use admin and the generated password shown in the protected credentials panel, then change the password from your profile. The first start takes under a minute while the database is created. The admin login only seeds the account on first start.

Is my LeafWiki wiki public?

No. Login is required to read and edit pages unless you enable public read access with LEAFWIKI_PUBLIC_ACCESS in the Environment editor. Enable it only if you want anyone with the address to read the wiki, and check what is in it first.

Why must the LeafWiki JWT secret stay the same?

LeafWiki signs login sessions with it, so a new value signs every user out. xCloud generates it at install; keep it stable when you edit the environment, and keep a private copy so a rebuilt server keeps the same sessions.

How large can LeafWiki uploads be?

Attachments are limited to 50 MiB each. ZIP import and snapshot restore accept up to 500 MiB, but requests above about 100 MB are rejected when your domain sits behind the Cloudflare proxy. Split large imports into several smaller archives.

Does LeafWiki keep revision history or send email?

Revision history, link refactoring and SMTP email are opt-in upstream flags that this template leaves off, so do not rely on them being available. There is also no real-time collaborative editing and no single sign-on in this setup.

What should I back up on a LeafWiki server?

The leafwiki_data volume, plus your stable environment values. LeafWiki also writes a daily ZIP snapshot into that same volume, which is a convenience copy and not an off-server backup, so copy the volume elsewhere and test a restore.

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How do I upgrade LeafWiki?

Nothing upgrades it for you: the install stays on pinned release v0.14.1 until you adopt a newer template version. Back up leafwiki_data first, read the upstream release notes, then check sign-in and a few pages afterwards.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.