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 this time, the platform that runs in > realy matters. You could have your own low/midrange servers setup or you > could use cloud based infastructure services like Amazon Elastic cloud to > achieve this. > > The cheapest and in often cases the best would be a shared hosting service. > In the service that I use <http://www.netdotnet.com/> for my own needs, > economy shared hosting (I have their deluxe hosting plan) with 10 GB Space, > 300 GB Transfer, 100 Email Accounts, 10 MySQL Databases is for about $48 a > year and this comes with an option to setup the mediawiki (among many other > web apps) installation thru their value apps install control panel. I > installed it, then customized it for my needs (very easy, we have ftp access > into the hosting server). I have also installed the mediawiki on my own by > using one of those mysql databases that comes with it. This is good enough > to handle the load and traffic what you are looking for, if you are ok to > host it out of your org's network. They are basically the better priced > resellers of godaddy and I am very happy with their service and uptime. I > highly recommend it. You can find many other services similar to this. > please do a market study if you wish. > > I had initially tried some vps services to run my things and finally came > back to the shared hosting due to the heavy load on the machine that ran > both. My site had 100k hits every month while we were attempting to run it > internally. I currently use my shared hosting to serve the media and content > to mutiple non profit sites including malayalabhasha.org, blogswara.in and > techvidya.com and a tranining mediawiki install - radiolines.com. This way, > I dont need to worry about resources, network and uptimes. > > this is just my experience. hope this helps. I will be glad to help if you > need any more info from my work experience. feel free to drop a line offline > if you need. > > Regards, > Jyothis. > > http://www.Jyothis.net > > http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis > > woods are lovely dark and deep, > but i have promises to keep and > miles to go before i sleep and > lines to go before I press sleep > > completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) > + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings > > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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, there is a mediawiki-enterprise mailing list... which is pretty >> much dead. mediawiki-l would be more appropiate, but i don't think it's >> offtopic here either. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
