Silicon Notes Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Silicon Notes hosting on xCloud gives you a private Markdown wiki on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Silicon Notes 0.1.5 image behind a Caddy gateway that asks for a username and a generated password, stores pages and history in a persistent volume and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes — so your notes stay behind a login instead of open on the internet.

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What is Silicon Notes?

Silicon Notes is an open-source personal knowledge base described by its author as somewhat lightweight and low-friction. You write pages as plain-text Markdown, they render as HTML with syntax highlighting for code, and pages can be linked to each other in both directions.

It adds full-text and page-title search, a revision history for every page, a table of contents in the sidebar and a layout that works on mobile. Silicon has no accounts of its own, so this template puts a single login in front of the whole site.

From Sign-Up to Your First Page In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted wiki normally means a Python app, a reverse proxy, a login layer, a volume, a domain and a certificate before the first note. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Silicon Notes from the OneClick catalog and choose a domain. Set the admin username (it defaults to admin); xCloud generates the password.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We run the community Silicon Notes image, pinned by immutable digest, as a private container with no host port, put a Caddy 2.10.2 gateway in front that enforces HTTP Basic Auth, mount the silicon_home volume for the SQLite database, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Create Home
Open your HTTPS Silicon Notes URL and sign in with the username and generated password from the installation credentials when the browser asks. A fresh install has no home page yet, so create it and write your first page.

Everything Silicon Notes Does, On Your Own Server

Silicon Notes runs in full here: a Markdown wiki with history and search on your own domain, behind a login you control.

Markdown Pages With Highlighting
Write pages as plain-text Markdown and read them rendered as HTML, with syntax highlighting for code blocks.
Page History
Each save creates a new revision, and a page's History link lists its earlier versions.
Full-Text And Title Search
Search across page text and page titles from the same interface.
Bi-Directional Page Links
Link pages with double-bracket internal links and a Related section that works in both directions, with a table of contents for the page you are reading.
One Login For The Whole Site
A Caddy gateway enforces HTTP Basic Auth with your chosen username and a generated password. Silicon has no accounts of its own, so anyone with these credentials can read and edit every page.
Mobile-Friendly Layout
The interface switches to a mobile view on narrow screens, with the navigation pane behind a Nav button.

Everything You Need To Run Your Markdown Wiki 24/7

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

Silicon Notes 0.1.5 deployed instantly
Community image pinned by digest
Generated login password
Private app container, no host port
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Silicon Notes

A private notebook
Keep personal notes, snippets and reference pages in one Markdown wiki that only people with the login can open.
Linked reference pages
Connect related pages with internal links and the Related section, so a topic's notes can be reached from each other.
Code and how-to notes
Store commands and configuration in fenced code blocks that render with syntax highlighting.
Notes that keep their history
Every save creates a new revision, so earlier versions of a page can still be looked up from its History link.

Silicon Notes vs Alternatives

BookStack: A wiki organised into shelves, books, chapters and pages, with WYSIWYG and Markdown editing.
Wiki.js: A modern wiki with Markdown, WYSIWYG and AsciiDoc editors, Git-backed storage and granular permissions.
flatnotes: Database-free Markdown notes stored as plain files, where Silicon keeps its pages and history in a SQLite database.
Notion: A hosted SaaS workspace rather than an app you run on your own server.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Silicon Notes 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. Silicon Notes itself is licensed by its author under Apache-2.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Markdown Wiki?

Silicon Notes 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 is the site protected?

Silicon has no login of its own, so the template adds an HTTP Basic Auth gateway using a generated password. In QA, unauthenticated requests received a 401 and authenticated create and read worked.

How do I sign in?

Use the username you chose at install (default admin) and the generated password shown in the installation credentials when the browser prompts.

Can different people have different permissions?

No. Silicon has no accounts, so there is one shared login. Share the credentials only with people who should read and edit every page.

What runs alongside Silicon Notes?

A small Caddy 2.10.2 gateway that handles the login and proxies to Silicon. The Silicon container itself is private to the stack and publishes no host ports.

Why does a fresh install show a 404 for the home page?

A fresh install has no home page until you create it. Sign in, create the page and the 404 goes away.

How do I change the username or password?

Change ADMIN_USERNAME or ADMIN_PASSWORD in the environment editor, then Save & Redeploy. The gateway applies them on every start.

Edit environment variables and redeploy

Can I use a plain text box instead of the CodeMirror editor?

Yes. Set SILICON_EDITOR=textarea in the environment editor and Save & Redeploy to switch the page editor from CodeMirror to a plain text box.

What should I back up?

The silicon_home volume, which holds the SQLite database with all pages and history. Keep the .env values stable.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Data on the silicon_home volume. Pages and history survived a container restart in QA because the volume is persistent.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Silicon Notes?

No. The template pins Silicon Notes 0.1.5 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 256 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 85 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, which leaves plenty of headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Silicon Notes?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Silicon Notes project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Silicon Notes project.

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.