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 little bit more time and host SilverBullet on a server in your local network or on the public Internet. SilverBullet is not available as a SaaS product, so you’ll have to self host it.

Cloud hosted

The easiest option to have SilverBullet hosted for you on the public Internet is using PikaPods. For a small amount (from about $1.50 per month), you can run your instance there. PikaPods handles deployment, upgrades and backups and exposes SilverBullet securely via TLS.

Self hosted

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:

1. Installation via Docker (the awesome container runtime): recommended if you already have Docker installed
2. Installation of the single Binary distribution (available for all major platforms)

Non-local access

Once you got a comfortable set running locally, you may want to look at options to expose your setup to your Network and Internet.