Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintenance costs

2010-04-14 Thread Branden Visser
Thanks everyone for your thorough replies. This is a huge help. Cheers, Branden Jyothis Edathoot wrote: Branden, What you can budget for such a setup is also a factor in the type of setup that you may want to run. While mediawiki software is fine for the hevy loads that you can have at

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance costs

2010-04-13 Thread Branden Visser
Hi everyone, We're considering hosting MediaWiki for an institution of approximately 16,000 users. We're wondering what costs (monetary or employee-hours) others have experienced in a similar deployment. Currently we're looking at a relatively light single-use (say, 50 concurrent users peak),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintenance costs

2010-04-13 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: Anyway, this list is used mainly by MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia sysadmins, not third-party/corporate users. You could try asking at the mwusers.com forum, or some place like that, for an answer from someone who's actually in a similar situation to you. In fact,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintenance costs

2010-04-13 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
Branden, What you can budget for such a setup is also a factor in the type of setup that you may want to run. While mediawiki software is fine for the hevy loads that you can have at this time, the platform that runs in realy matters. You could have your own low/midrange servers setup or you