Re: [CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

2014-12-16 Thread Jeremy C. Shellhase
Craig, and the list, Yea, I meant MediaWiki... Jeremy C. Shellhase Systems Librarian *and* Bibliographer/Instructor for Business, Economics, Education, Child Development, Psychology, Social Work Humboldt State University Library One Harpst Street Arcata, California 95521 707-826-3144 (voice) 707-

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

2014-12-16 Thread Edward M. Corrado
I have both a locally hosted and a "cloud" hosted Mediawiki install. The cloud hosted one is a one-click install on DreamHost. I am pleased with DreamHost as a hosting service and use it for other things including Wordpress and dotProject. Incidently, I also manage a Hostmonster hosted wordpress in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

2014-12-16 Thread Derek Merleaux
Hi Jeremy, I was recently recommended to Digital Ocean for simple low-cost hosting and have been quite pleased with the service. They also have some very easy-to-follow documentation and instructions for setting up all sorts of basic server-side software including mediawiki https://www.digitalocean

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

2014-12-16 Thread Sylvain Machefert
Hello Jeremy, as Craig said, I think you mean Mediawiki : - Wikipedia : the well-known encyclopedia project - Wikimedia Foundation : the foundation running the servers of the previous project (+ some others) and managing infrastructure / legal / funds and so on - Mediawiki : the open source soft

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

2014-12-15 Thread Craig Franklin
Hi Jeremy, Do you mean hosting for *MediaWiki* software? Cheers, Craig Franklin On 16 December 2014 at 10:28, Jeremy C. Shellhase < jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu> wrote: > > Does anybody have a recommendation for a hosting service for Wikimedia? > I'd normally think of installing something like t

[CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

2014-12-15 Thread Jeremy C. Shellhase
Does anybody have a recommendation for a hosting service for Wikimedia? I'd normally think of installing something like this locally, but our centralized IT isn't up to the task and I have no staff or servers anymore. I'd like to be able to use plug-ins that I find and be able to use our campus' C