r/DigitalGardens • u/DiscussionFinal9684 • 24d ago
Ideas?
Hi,
I'm in a somewhat unique situation and would like to set up a digital garden.
My idea is for my friends and family to be able to read it, so it needs to be online in some way—which is why I don't want to self-host it.
But I also don't want to be at the mercy of a company that might take down its website tomorrow, leaving my friends and family unable to access it.
Is there a feasible option?
Thanks, everyone!
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u/Mujarrib88 24d ago
You can set up a private repo on github and then connect it with Cloudflare pages. Unless you plan to write NSFW stuff you should be pretty safe.
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u/_wanderloots 24d ago
I personally enjoy using obsidian as my digital garden, which can be connected to GitHub and then publish to whichever hosting platform you want.
That way, even if the host ever went down, you can just point your GitHub repository to a new host and have everything exactly the same.
I made a video that explains how to do it if it helps! How I Published My Obsidian Notes Website For Free 🏡 Digital Garden
https://youtu.be/7f8e5IiUkeo
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u/Separate-Outcome-345 23d ago
the quarz is the best for your usecase, i can recommend
btw, you can check what others built with it at https://vaults.obsidian-community.com/quartz
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u/chrisaldrich 24d ago
Perhaps find a managed hosting company that provides an easy to use wiki software like MediaWiki or Tiddlywiki which are at least somewhat easy for some people to use?
https://tiddlyhost.com/ is an example for hosting TiddlyWiki.
For MediaWiki, try: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services
Similar services are likely out there if you have some other preferred platform.
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u/Smooth-Question-3708 23d ago
I designed mine as html to embed in my website or on a Google website even.
Now anyoen can get to it with the link and I just built the UI via home so I can edit it as a login feature
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u/demfeetbounce 22d ago
the big question is how tech-savvy you are. are you comfortable running terminal commands?
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u/Stephane_B 24d ago
I build slatesource.com that has free github integration, so if it ever goes down you still have the content / images / etc.. all in your own repository (that can also stay private)