Silicon Notes Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Silicon Notes hosting and keep 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 SQLite database on a persistent volume and publishes it over HTTPS. Your notes stay behind a login instead of open on the internet.

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What is Silicon Notes?

Silicon Notes is a somewhat lightweight, low-friction personal knowledge base. Upstream lists plaintext editing in Markdown rendered as HTML, syntax highlighting, bi-directional page relationships, full-text and page title search, page history, a table of contents in the sidebar and a usable mobile layout, with no big frameworks. Self-hosted Silicon Notes is the alternative to a hosted note-taking service, released under the Apache-2.0 licence.

On xCloud it is Silicon Notes 0.1.5, the community image pinned by digest, behind a Caddy gateway. Silicon has no accounts of its own, so the gateway enforces one shared HTTP Basic login and the app stays private to the stack. All pages and history sit in SQLite on the silicon_home volume. A fresh install shows a 404 home page until you create it.

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

Keep personal notes private
Write Markdown notes on a server that asks for a login, rather than in a hosted app that holds them for you.
Link notes into a web
Connect pages with bi-directional relationships, so each note shows what links to it as well as what it links to.
Find a note you wrote last year
Search full text and page titles, with a table of contents in the sidebar to jump around long pages.
Read and edit on a phone
Use the mobile layout to capture a note away from the desk, and switch to a plain text editor if CodeMirror is too heavy.

Silicon Notes vs Alternatives

Hosted note-taking services: A hosted notes app keeps your pages on a vendor's servers. Self-hosted Silicon Notes stores them as Markdown in SQLite on your own Cloud VPS, behind your own login.
Otter Wiki: Otter Wiki has its own OneClick page as another small Markdown wiki. Silicon Notes keeps its pages and history in one SQLite database and adds bi-directional page relationships.
DokuWiki: DokuWiki has its own OneClick page as a file-based wiki with page history, access control and plugins. Silicon Notes is simpler and has one shared login rather than permissions.
Raneto: Raneto has its own OneClick page and serves a folder of Markdown files as a knowledge base. Silicon Notes stores notes in a database with history and linked pages instead of loose files.

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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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.
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Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
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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.

Can you self-host Silicon Notes with Docker?

Yes. Upstream deploys with Gunicorn and ships a container image, and this template is Silicon Notes Docker hosting already set up: the 0.1.5 image pinned by digest, a Caddy login gateway, one silicon_home volume and HTTPS. It is your own Silicon Notes cloud wiki.

How much RAM does Silicon Notes need?

The template asks for 256 MB of RAM, 1 core and 1 GB of disk; idle use in QA was about 85 MiB. The 6 GB plan is the entry rung here, which leaves ample headroom for the app, the gateway and a growing set of notes.

Is Silicon Notes free?

Yes, Apache-2.0 licensed with no fee. Only the dedicated Cloud VPS is billed, cancellable whenever you wish. Your pages stay in a SQLite database on a volume you control, so you can copy the whole wiki out whenever you need to.

How is Silicon Notes protected by a login?

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. The Silicon container itself publishes no host ports.

How do I sign in to Silicon Notes?

Use the username you chose at install, admin by default, and the generated password from the installation credentials when your browser prompts. Anyone holding that login can read and edit every page and its history, so share it only with people you trust fully.

Can different people have different permissions in Silicon Notes?

No. Silicon has no accounts, so there is one shared login. Everyone who has it can read and edit every page. If you need separate users or roles, choose a wiki with accounts, and keep Silicon Notes for a single person or a small trusted group.

Why does a fresh Silicon Notes install show a 404?

A fresh install has no home page until you create it. Sign in, create the page, and the 404 goes away. Upstream also ships built-in documentation, which you can read from inside the app to learn the page syntax.

Does Silicon Notes keep page history?

Yes, upstream lists page history as a feature, and it is stored with the pages in SQLite on silicon_home. Upstream lists version diffs between revisions as not implemented, so you can see earlier versions but not a side-by-side comparison.

How do I change the Silicon Notes username or password?

Change ADMIN_USERNAME or ADMIN_PASSWORD in the Environment editor, then Save and Redeploy. The gateway applies them on every start. You can also set SILICON_EDITOR=textarea there to swap the CodeMirror editor for a plain text box.

How do I back up Silicon Notes?

Back up the silicon_home volume, which holds the SQLite database with every page and its history, and keep the environment values stable alongside it. Stop the app for a consistent copy of the database file, and try a restore once before you rely on it.

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How do I upgrade Silicon Notes?

The install stays on pinned 0.1.5 until you adopt a newer template version. Back up silicon_home, read the upstream release notes, then redeploy and open a page and its history. Existing sites are never upgraded automatically.

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.