There’s a progressive path in how people tend to install and deploy SilverBullet. Generally, it’s best to try it out on your local machine first. Play around a bit, see if it’s for you.
Once you’re hooked, you may want to spend a bit more time and host SilverBullet on a server in your local network or on the public Internet.
While Self Hosted is the intended path, if this is too much hassle for you. There is a simpler option by using PikaPods. For a small fee (about \(1.50 per month and you get \)5 in credit signing up, so the first months are free), you can run your instance there. PikaPods handles deployment, upgrades and backups and exposes SilverBullet securely via TLS.
Installing SilverBullet as a (local) web server is pretty straightforward if you’re technically inclined enough to be able to use a terminal.
The basic setup is simple: you run the SilverBullet server process on your machine, then connect to it locally from your browser via localhost.
You have two options:
Once you got a comfortable set running locally, you will have to look at options to expose your setup to your Install/Network and Internet.