Wikimedia Hosting
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Secure, Powerful and Reliable Cloud Hosting from the Experts
We guarantee response to support questions within one hour, 24 hours a day, all year round. Typical response time is under 10 minutes. Oh, and we’re friendly too. 🙂
Expertise
Leverage the power of our expertise — we know MediaWiki and we use it and we are here to help.
Have a question? Just contact us — we’re wating to hear from you.
Most Popular Account Sizes
Regular
Extended
MINI VPS
The latest stable version of MediaWiki is always tested and confirmed to run on our shared hosting and VPS hosting accounts.
Need More Storage?
We can provide additional disk space. Just contact us for a custom quote.
Reputation
Our hosting services are among the best in the business, including:
- A perfect security record (to the best of our knowledge, our server security has never been comprised)
- 24/7 support with an average ticket response time of 10 minutes, night or day
- 99.99% uptime.
All plans include
| ✓ 24/7 Support | ✓ Free Installation | ✓ Free Migration | ✓ SSD Disks |
| ✓ Daily Backups | ✓ SSL Protection | ✓ 99.99% Uptime | ✓ SSH Access |
Security
We will install MediaWiki for you and keep it online, secure and running fast, with no headaches involved.
Hosting Features
All features included with all accounts at no extra cost:Shared Hosting
Linux servers configured for maximum performance and for reliability -- our uptime is 99.9% or better.
VPS Hosting
Fully managed, powerful VPS accounts, with 100% dedicated hardware resources, including CPU, RAM and disk space.
Support
We are here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Response time is 5 minutes. Yes, we never sleep.
SSL certificates
All accounts come with free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates.
Control Panel
All accounts come with a full-featured custom-built Control Panel.
Backups
Full backups of all files and data, every 24 hours.
Wikimedia
Wikimedia “global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world.” Their site says:
Through various projects, chapters, and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Their most popular software project is MediaWiki, which is what they themselves use to run Wikipedia, along with a few hundred other wikis.
The installation procedure is easy and if you use CiviHosting of course we will do that for you. But if you prefer to do it yourself, see our How to Install MediaWiki guide.
Hosting for MediaWiki
MediaWiki requires a server with three elements: web server software, PHP and a database server.
The web server could be IIS, for Windows systems, or one of the smaller Linux systems such as LiteSpeed, nginx or lighttpd, but the most popular is Apache, and that is what CiviHosting uses for all servers.
For PHP, the server must be configured with a recent version, and must include PCRE, Sessions, JSON, mbstring and fileinfo. Non-core features, included in themes or extensions, may have other PHP requirements.
The database server could be Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite or PostgreSQL, but the most popular choice is MySQL and that’s what CivicRM uses for all servers.
Other requirements: There are other tools that make it easier to host and use MediaWiki such as ImageMagick or GD for image processing, in particular for creating thumbs. Then a mailer tool is required for the server to send emails, such as updates and password resets. Then shell access (for Linux machines) makes maintenance tasks much easier.
CiviHosting specializes in hosting MediaWiki and we setup and maintain the server for you.