MediaWiki hosting

**paul** · #1 (**permalink**) 16-07-2009, 15:23

What hosting plan is best for MediaWiki hosting? I am expecting high amount of traffic from the start so my preference would to get powerful control panel and root access. Thanks!

**Ryan** · #2 (**permalink**) 16-07-2009, 17:11

Hi Paul,

Since you are expecting high amount of traffic from the very beginning and you also need root access, you could start off with a VPS or a Semi Dedicated Server and perhaps upgrade to a dedicated server gradually as the traffic grows further.

As far as control panel is concerned, you can choose either cPanel/WHM or Plesk with VPS/Semi Dedicated Server depending upon your preference. Both of the feature sets are pretty much comparable, and both are reasonably fast, secure, and reliable.

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**paul** · #3 (**permalink**) 17-07-2009, 09:02

Ryan, Thanks for the suggestion, I think VPS would be a better solutions for me at the most.

**alevin46** · #4 (**permalink**) 14-08-2010, 05:19

Hello Friends..........

MediaWiki is free, open source software that is written in PHP. The software was originally used to develop the now famous Wikipedia but is now available under the GNU General Public Licence. It uses a MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store the information. WikiMedia uses the wikitext format, a format that is almost like the WYSIWYG format that allows users to edit content without any knowledge of XHML or CSS. Even if a mistake is made or a page vandalised, MediaWiki always keeps a backup of previous pages to allow users to easily rollback to a previous version.

Thanks