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 <Platonides(a)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.
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