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Deploy DokuWiki as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

DokuWiki is an open-source wiki engine — flat-file storage, namespace-based access control, and a clean syntax that survives outside the wiki itself — combining the structured documentation of Confluence with the data ownership and predictable cost of running your own server. Written in PHP, released in 2004, and still actively maintained, it powers internal knowledge bases for engineering teams, architecture studios, university labs, and small businesses.

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DokuWiki

DokuWiki

STARTING AT

€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is DokuWiki

DokuWiki is an open-source wiki engine that stores pages as plain text files instead of in a database, uses namespace-based access control, and runs on a standard PHP web stack. It's been actively developed since 2004 and is licensed under GPLv2.

DokuWiki was created by Andreas Gohr in 2004 and is now maintained by a community of contributors on GitHub. The project ships roughly two major releases per year plus security hotfixes — the cadence is intentional, not stalled.

Pages are written in DokuWiki's own simple markup, stored as .txt files in the data directory, and rendered to HTML on request. The absence of a database is a deliberate design choice: backups are a tar -czf of one folder, migration between servers is a file copy, and the page history is human-readable for as long as the filesystem survives.

The plugin ecosystem holds over 1,000 contributed extensions covering authentication (LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth, SAML), syntax extensions (Markdown, MediaWiki syntax, diagrams), and integrations (Git sync, full-text indexers, search). DokuWiki is available in 74 languages and ships about 2.5 MB compressed. Production deployments span software documentation, university course wikis, manufacturing SOPs, and municipal records archives.

FEATURES

What DokuWiki does

DokuWiki is built for structured, long-lived documentation. The feature set covers what a knowledge base actually needs — versioned pages, granular access control, fulltext search, media management, plugin extensibility — without the database overhead of larger wiki platforms. Below is what ships in the base release before you add a single plugin.

Flat-file storage

Every page is a plain .txt file in the data directory. No database to maintain, no backup script to write. A tar of the folder is your backup.

Versioned pages

Every edit is preserved in the attic directory with a timestamp. Roll back individual pages, compare revisions side-by-side, or grep the historical record for a specific change.

Authentication plugins

Ships with authplain (flat file), authldap (any LDAP directory), and authad (Active Directory with NTLM/Kerberos SSO). Community plugins add OAuth, SAML, and OpenID Connect.

Plugin extension manager

Browse and install community plugins from the admin interface, including syntax extensions, integrations, and authentication backends. Over 1,000 plugins published to date.

Namespace-based ACLs

Permissions are set per namespace (folder) and inherited by child pages. A single rule controls who reads, edits, or admins an entire section of the wiki.

Fulltext search

A built-in indexer scans every page and supports phrase queries, wildcards, and namespace scoping. The bin/indexer.php CLI tool rebuilds the index for large wikis on demand.

Media management

Upload images, PDFs, CAD files, and binary attachments organised in the same namespace hierarchy as pages. The media manager supports versioning and access control.

Multi-language and i18n

Available in 74 languages with right-to-left script support. Page namespaces can be language-scoped for multilingual documentation sites.

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed DokuWiki

Atlassian retired Confluence Server in 2021 and is winding down Data Center toward 2029, while Confluence Cloud's per-seat pricing scales linearly with headcount. Teams of 10–50 reading the renewal invoice are picking DokuWiki — flat file, flat fee — and looking for someone to handle the operations.

Self-hosting DokuWiki looks deceptively easy. The install is a tarball and a web server. There is no database. The first month works. The trouble starts later.

The plugin treadmill is the most common failure mode. DokuWiki has over 1,000 community plugins, and many haven't shipped a release in years. When PHP rolls forward — 7.4 to 8.1 to 8.2 to 8.3 — abandoned plugins break, sometimes silently, sometimes in ways that crash the admin interface and lock you out of your own wiki. The mediasyntax and WikipediaSnippet plugins, for example, stopped working on PHP 8.x without their maintainers updating them. The runcommand plugin, last released in 2014, carries an unauthenticated remote-code-execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-51958) that is still in the official plugin directory with no patch.

DokuWiki itself has security advisories of its own. Releases include XSS and RCE fixes; CVE-2025-61224 in the 2025-05-14a release is one example. Self-hosters who don't track the advisory feed run vulnerable wikis for months.

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

Successful businesses and professionals around the world rely on DANIAN every day

USE CASES

Three teams who run DokuWiki on DANIAN

The team types that pick DokuWiki on DANIAN are not running it because it's the newest wiki. They're running it because it's still here twenty years later, the backup is a folder copy, and the operational cost is a flat €9 instead of a per-seat tax.

25-PERSON SOFTWARE TEAM

Migrating off Confluence after the renewal hit $1,920/yr

A 25-person backend team in Toronto shipped a migrate-dokuwiki import of three years of Confluence pages into a single namespace on DANIAN's Canada region. Authentication via Active Directory through authad. Daily backup. Confluence renewal cancelled. €108/yr instead of $1,920/yr.

12-PERSON ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

Per-project namespaces with client-shared read-only views

A studio in Munich runs one namespace per active project, with read-only ACLs for client review and full edit for staff. PDF and DWG attachments served from the media manager, daily off-site backup. Region: Germany for the EU clients; no per-seat math when contractors come and go.

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT IT

Course wikis, lab notebooks, and LDAP from the campus directory

A 40-faculty department in São Paulo runs course wikis, internal lab documentation, and a small public knowledge base on one DokuWiki instance. LDAP integration against the campus directory, group-based namespace ACLs, region in Brazil so faculty edits stay local. Index rebuilt nightly via cron.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run DokuWiki

DokuWiki itself is free. The question is the path. A SaaS like Confluence solves the operations but charges by the seat, forever. A VPS or home server gives you control plus the patching, the backups, and the on-call burden. DANIAN gives you the control without the burden.

 PATHAT 1 USERAT 5 USERSAT 10 USERSOPS TIME / MONTH TRADE-OFF
Proprietary SaaS
Confluence Cloud Standard at $6.40/user/month, 10-seat minimum*
$64/mo$64/mo$64/mo0 hrs
Data ownership, plugin freedom, predictable cost above 10 seats
Self-host on a VPS
$24/mo 2 vCPU / 4 GB production-class VPS + $5 backup + $15 monitoring
$44/mo infra + 1–2 hrs/mo$44/mo + 1–2 hrs/mo$44/mo + 1–2 hrs/mo1–2 hrs ongoing, 5–10 hrs setupTime. PHP-upgrade weekends. CVE-tracking discipline.
Home server
Synology DS923+ or similar ~€650 amortised + business uplink €40–80/mo + power + off-site backup target
€210–667/mo effectivesamesame2–4 hrs ongoing + hardware replacement cycleTime, capex, residential-uplink risk
DANIAN Managed DokuWiki€9/mo€9/mo€9/mo0 hrsNothing material. Per-container dashboard included.

* Confluence Cloud Standard enforces a 10-seat minimum bill on every Cloud site. The bill is $64/month flat from 1 to 10 users at $6.40/user/month; from 11 users it scales linearly (25 users = $160/mo, 50 users = $320/mo, and rising). DANIAN's €9 is per-app, not per-user — the same instance covers everyone with access. Sources: Atlassian pricing page, May 2026.

BY INDUSTRY

DokuWiki for specific industries

DokuWiki's structured-text approach lines up with industries that need long-lived records: regulated documentation, version-controlled procedures, multilingual catalogs. The four below each ask something specific of the wiki — and what we tune by default differs accordingly. Each section names the regulation, our configuration choice, the workflow, and one quantifiable detail.

Engineering teams use DokuWiki for runbooks, on-call playbooks, post-mortems, and architecture decision records. The single source of truth for an incident response should not itself be a service that can go down — which is why teams running DokuWiki tend to host it apart from their primary infrastructure.

The relevant standard is SOC 2's CC7 (system operations) and CC8 (change management) — auditors want to see versioned, access-controlled documentation of procedures and changes. DokuWiki's per-page revision history and namespace ACLs satisfy both.

On DANIAN we configure authad or authldap against the team's existing directory, enable the revisioning plugin by default, and schedule the search indexer nightly. A typical 25-person engineering team running DANIAN's flat €9 saves roughly $1,800–$2,500 per year against Confluence Cloud Standard's 10-seat-minimum pricing at scale.
Architecture, civil, and mechanical engineering studios use DokuWiki as a project-room: drawings, specifications, RFIs, meeting notes, and client correspondence in one namespace per active job. The media manager handles PDF, DWG, IFC, and DXF attachments without external file storage.

The operational standard is ISO 9001 §7.5 (control of documented information), which requires version control, access restriction by role, and retention discipline. DokuWiki's namespace ACLs and attic revision history meet the audit requirement; the flat-file storage means the regulator can read a page's history from disk if the wiki engine is ever retired.

On DANIAN we increase upload size limits to accommodate large CAD attachments, configure namespace-level ACLs so subcontractors see only their job folder, and run weekly archive snapshots in addition to daily backups. A typical studio stores 30–80 GB of attachments per active project year.
Universities, polytechnics, and research labs run DokuWiki for course materials, internal lab notebooks, and public-facing department pages on one engine. The mix of internal/external content maps directly to DokuWiki's namespace model — a public dept namespace, a faculty-only staff namespace, and per-course namespaces with student write access.

Data-protection regulations vary by region — GDPR in Europe, FERPA in the United States, LGPD in Brazil — but the operational requirement is consistent: lecturer records, grade discussions, and student-personal data must sit behind authenticated access, and access changes must be logged.

On DANIAN we set up authad against the campus directory (so faculty and student accounts are managed centrally), configure the per-namespace ACLs from existing AD groups, and enable verbose access logging on the staff namespaces. A research lab running a 1,000-page wiki at €9/month is roughly the price of two coffees per week.
Manufacturing teams use DokuWiki for shop-floor work instructions, machine-specific maintenance procedures, training materials, and quality records. Each machine cell or production line gets its own namespace; the namespace ACL restricts editing to qualified operators while keeping the documentation readable by anyone with a floor-terminal browser.

The standard is ISO 9001 §7.5 again, sometimes paired with industry-specific regimes — IATF 16949 for automotive, AS9100 for aerospace, ISO 13485 for medical devices — all of which require controlled work instructions with traceable revision history. DokuWiki's page revisions and access controls satisfy the documentation-control clauses cleanly.

On DANIAN we configure namespace-per-cell ACLs, enable the changelog plugin for revision tracking, and increase the search-index batch size so the full-text search stays fast even past 10,000 work instructions. A typical mid-sized plant runs 5,000–15,000 instruction pages.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

We pin every DokuWiki instance to a PHP version we've regression-tested against the upstream stable release and the most common plugin set. When the DokuWiki team ships a new release that needs a PHP bump, we test it in our pre-production cluster first and roll it out per-customer with notice.
The runcommand plugin's CVE is unauthenticated remote code execution, and the plugin maintainer hasn't shipped a patch since 2014. We block known-vulnerable abandoned plugins from the install image and from the Extension Manager UI. If you need similar functionality, ask us — there are maintained alternatives we vet before enabling.
Yes — namespace ACLs are the standard pattern. Set the top-level ACL to allow anonymous read on :public, restrict :staff to a named group, and inherit. We help configure this from the admin interface on request. The same instance can serve a public docs site and an internal knowledge base.
DokuWiki rebuilds the search index incrementally on each page write, which works fine for small wikis but degrades on large ones. We schedule bin/indexer.php --clear as a nightly cron and tune the readdir cache. A 10,000-page wiki searches in under a second on our default sizing.
Yes. The Extension Manager stays available in the admin UI; you can install any plugin or template from the official repository.
We subscribe to the DokuWiki security advisory feed and the project's GitHub releases. When a security fix ships, we test it against the standard plugin set and apply it to all customer instances within our patch SLA.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
There are two community tools — confluence-to-dokuwiki (Python) and the older Universal Wiki Converter — that convert Confluence HTML exports to DokuWiki syntax via pandoc. Macros don't survive the trip; tables, links, attachments, and page hierarchy do.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

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