Hi Daniel, thanks for your advice. I can't afford a VPS yet and also my hard disk usage and traffic is not big. 0.5% of harddisk allocation and 0.3% bandwidth allocation is not even 1% of my shared hosting allocation. But one day, I may have to look into VPS. Hopefully by then, there is advertising revenue to support it.
PM Poon On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>wrote: > 99% of shared hosting packages will not be very good for hosting a fair > sized MediaWiki environment. > > Your best bet is a VPS. I've been using Linode.com for mine for awhile, > though if you are pretty large and want some scalability you might try > using Amazon ec2 (I'm thinking of experimenting with them soon). The > smallest Linode is about $20/mo. Though I warn you that while ec2 is > good for scalability and only paying for what you actually use, a 24/7 > server will normally cost you at least around $80/mo. But it is a good > solution if you expect a lot of bandwidth and visitors. > > As for your comment of automatic installations. Most of those are junk > anyways, MediaWiki isn't to hard to setup and in the long run you are > far better off if you actually understand how to configure the stuff you > are running. > While a VPS will take a little more understanding of how things work, > you can fairly easily get things like Memcached, ImageMagic, rsvg, and > all the other special MediaWiki features setup. Most of those will be > completely unavailable to you on shared hosting. > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com] > -Nadir-Point (http://nadir-point.com) > -Wiki-Tools (http://wiki-tools.com) > -MonkeyScript (http://monkeyscript.nadir-point.com) > -Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) > -Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) > -Soul Eater Wiki (http://souleater.wikia.com) > > > > Ekompute .info wrote: > > Hi, can anyone recommend me a good *multi-domain webhost* to host my > > Mediawiki? I am with Siteground. They are good but they are now asking me > to > > upgrade to VPS hosting @ US$99 a month although I only use 0.5% of my > hard > > disk allocation and 0.3% of my bandwidth allocation. > > > > I tried Hostgator but the installation is not automatic. I have to set up > my > > own database manually and I am worried that there will be many features > that > > they can't handle, just like my local webhost in Malaysia. They just give > > you a hosting and that's it! Hostgator honored their money-back guarantee > > and promptly refund my money. > > > > PM Poon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
