On 10/01/2013 07:27 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > On 10/01/2013 09:25 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: >> We've been moving away from being friendly to old-style shared-hosting >> servers for some time with key features that people are going to expect to >> replicate on their MediaWikis in the future... > > Fair enough. > > If WMF were the only user of MW, you could freely decide to take MW it > whatever direction you choose. But doing that now without considering > the needs of other MW users isn't responsible. > > Not everyone needs to run Wikipedia and it is a worthwhile effort to > make sure MediaWiki remains scalable down to the shared-hosting level.
With VPS prices starting in the $2-$5 a month range [1][2][3][4] there are not many reasons left for using less secure and less predictable shared hosting. People have been migrating away from shared hosting for a while, and this trend is set to continue in the future. Given limited resources, it seems to be wiser to start focusing our efforts on packaging rather than shared hosting work-arounds. Using the best tools for different parts of the system rather than limiting ourselves to what is available on $.99 shared hosts lets us make MediaWiki more efficient and cleaner. This benefits users both at the low and high end. I'm looking forward to the days when "apt-get install mediawiki" installs and configures a fully-featured MediaWiki system with proper caching, VE, Parsoid, Lua and so on. And performs well on a $2 a month VPS. Gabriel [1]: http://ramnode.com/ [2]: http://lowendbox.com/ [3]: https://www.digitalocean.com/ [4]: http://www.vpscolo.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
