Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:34:30 -0600 From: Doug Holton d.holton@vanderbilt.edu Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki Farm for MediaWiki To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org

There is a 4th option though besides shared hosting, dedicated hosting, and using your DSL line. You can run your own "virtual" linux box for around $20/month using User-Mode Linux (UML), but you'd need to know or learn about linux system administration. See this page: http://holton.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/UserModeLinux I'm using UML hosting to move my wiki and set up other wikis too. I'm hoping to switch to the MediaWiki engine if the memory & processor requirements aren't too steep.

-Doug

Thank you for this information. My problems are that my web host restricts MySQL so the users scrip can not grant the permissions. I also have problems which appear to be caused by my inability to log on as root. Finally, and most of all, I am quite ignorant about Linux, MySQL, PHP, etc.

Therefore I bought a computer so I can experiment and educate myself on Linux, etc. Once I am halfway competent, I will look for a host.

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