On Jan 16, 2015 2:49 AM, "Max Semenik" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > One of the bigger questions I have about the potential shift to > > requiring services is the fate of shared hosting deployments of > > MediaWiki. What will happen to the numerous MediaWiki installs on > > shared hosting providers like 1and1, Dreamhost or GoDaddy when running > > MediaWiki requires multiple node.js/java/hack/python stand alone > > processes to function? Is the MediaWiki community making a conscious > > decision to abandon these customers? If so should we start looking for > > a suitable replacement that can be recommended and possibly develop > > tools to easy the migration away from MediaWiki to another monolithic > > wiki application? If not, how are we going to ensure that pure PHP > > alternate implementations get equal testing and feature development if > > they are not actively used on the Foundation's project wikis? > > > > > This is not even about shared hostings: it is pretty obvious that running a > bunch of heterogenous services is harder than just one PHP app, especially > if you don't have dedicated ops like we at WMF do. Therefore, the question > is: what will we gain and what will we lose by making MediaWiki unusable by > 95% of its current user base? > > > -- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >
Im quite concerned by this. Well shared hosting might be on the decline, I still feel like most third part users dont have the competence to do much more than ftp some files to their server and run the install script. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
