Re: [Mediawiki-l] Ideal mediawiki webhost

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Maughan
I've just checked and they have extended their Valentine's offer until Feb 16th; a year's dreamhost unlimited for $10! - fill in the sign-up form and then enter the promo code "777" at the bottom. That reduces the fee to $10 or so for the year ... http://www.dreamhost.com/ I bought one as an onl

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Ideal mediawiki webhost

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Maughan
I use dreamhost @ $10 or so/month for unlimited bandwidth & space plus 1-click installs. I would recommend them. - Regards, Mike On 16/02/2009, Ekompute .info wrote: > > Hi Peachey, thank you. I hear GoDaddy is for those who don't need technical > support, ie. those who can handle their own pro

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Ideal mediawiki webhost

2009-02-15 Thread Ekompute .info
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 advertisin

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Ideal mediawiki webhost

2009-02-15 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi Peachey, thank you. I hear GoDaddy is for those who don't need technical support, ie. those who can handle their own problems. Yes, I also hear that Dreamhost is good. What do I mean by "I have to set up my own database manually"? Usually when you set up your wiki, the program will help you ins

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Ideal mediawiki webhost

2009-02-15 Thread Daniel Friesen
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 wit

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Ideal mediawiki webhost

2009-02-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:55 PM, 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 allocatio

[Mediawiki-l] Ideal mediawiki webhost

2009-02-15 Thread Ekompute .info
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 th

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Host switched my FTP servers and now I can't connect to MW db.

2009-02-15 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Tim Ware wrote: > Hello, > > I'm hosted at Dreamhost (and don't really recommend it). Sometime > last night I got an email informing me that they'd switched me from > one server to another (an emergency) and that everything'd be alright. > > Nope. I have about

[Mediawiki-l] Host switched my FTP servers and now I can't connect to MW db.

2009-02-15 Thread Tim Ware
Hello, I'm hosted at Dreamhost (and don't really recommend it). Sometime last night I got an email informing me that they'd switched me from one server to another (an emergency) and that everything'd be alright. Nope. I have about 7 wikis running off this server and now and with one of

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Getting Image Upload Working

2009-02-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Charlie Markwick wrote: > This is really frustrating me. I would gladly pay for consultancy time > to get it resolved. > > Charlie This should cover what your looking for: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Setting_uploads_on.2Foff

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Getting Image Upload Working

2009-02-15 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Charlie Markwick wrote: > > This is really frustrating me. I would gladly pay for consultancy time > to get it resolved. > > Charlie > > ___ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wik

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Getting Image Upload Working

2009-02-15 Thread Charlie Markwick
This is really frustrating me. I would gladly pay for consultancy time to get it resolved. Charlie ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upload puzzle

2009-02-15 Thread Henry Hartley
Charlie Markwick wrote: > Katharina > > Am I stupid or what, thanks for the prompt reply. > > Katharina Wolkwitz wrote: > > Charlie Markwick schrieb am 13.02.2009 09:43: >> >> It says "In MediaWiki version 1.5 and later ...". However the latest >> version that can be downloaded is 1.13.4 can so

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Restricting access to a closed user group - How secure?

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/15 Bjorn Kassoe Andersen : > Does anyone know if the setups described here > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Simple_private_wiki > provide a relatively secure solution that is not to easy to hack? There is certainly no guarantee of security. I don't know of any easy w

[Mediawiki-l] Restricting access to a closed user group - How secure?

2009-02-15 Thread Bjorn Kassoe Andersen
Does anyone know if the setups described here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Simple_private_wiki provide a relatively secure solution that is not to easy to hack? I would like to use mediawiki in closed user group (in which all users will be having full access to all parts