Anyone happy with your commercial MediaWiki Web host?
Recommendations?
Dreamhost.com virtual hosting, $7.95/month, where I host my MediaWiki has frequent sluggish spells. I suspect the MySQL server is bogged down by too many other virtual host customers (my wiki only gets a few hits a minute, itself) and the overextended MySQL server is causing the wiki to serve pages in 2-8 second instead of the 1-2 seconds that is acceptable to normal website visitors. Normal people such as I'd like Wikigogy to serve just wont wait more than 2 seconds to view a page. So I need to find a faster MedaiWiki hosting solution. The slow down is on again off again -- site is fine for a day or more and then everything slows down again. It just wont do for my project.
I'd love to hear from anyone who is using a commercial full MedaiWiki Web host, on a virtual Web hosting account or otherwise, and is happy with it.
Thanks!
For what it's worth...
I had the same type of trouble with MySQL on Dreamhost, I contacted their support a couple of times and they eventually moved my site over to a different MySQL server. It's been a lot better since.
thanks Andrew
Roger Chrisman wrote:
Anyone happy with your commercial MediaWiki Web host?
Recommendations?
Dreamhost.com virtual hosting, $7.95/month, where I host my MediaWiki has frequent sluggish spells. I suspect the MySQL server is bogged down by too many other virtual host customers (my wiki only gets a few hits a minute, itself) and the overextended MySQL server is causing the wiki to serve pages in 2-8 second instead of the 1-2 seconds that is acceptable to normal website visitors. Normal people such as I'd like Wikigogy to serve just wont wait more than 2 seconds to view a page. So I need to find a faster MedaiWiki hosting solution. The slow down is on again off again -- site is fine for a day or more and then everything slows down again. It just wont do for my project.
I'd love to hear from anyone who is using a commercial full MedaiWiki Web host, on a virtual Web hosting account or otherwise, and is happy with it.
Thanks!
Roger Chrisman wrote:
Anyone happy with your commercial MediaWiki Web host?
I have one on OVH, and for the price (it starts at 1€/month for the shared hosting, the more expensive are bigger but not faster per se) I'm quite happy. The only thing I've been hammering them is the support of Subversion, so I could be back to svn co/update instead of ftp-ish.
But it's a western European one, might be too far away if you are from the US.
If you have money and want a fast site don't use dream host. Use a real host like Gigenet.com
On 1/4/07, Jérémie Bouillon jeremie@shadowfrance.net wrote:
Roger Chrisman wrote:
Anyone happy with your commercial MediaWiki Web host?
I have one on OVH, and for the price (it starts at 1€/month for the shared hosting, the more expensive are bigger but not faster per se) I'm quite happy. The only thing I've been hammering them is the support of Subversion, so I could be back to svn co/update instead of ftp-ish.
But it's a western European one, might be too far away if you are from the US.
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[Chris wrote> If you have money and want a fast site don't use dream host. Use a real host like Gigenet.com]
I can agree with this, I'm currently running my MediaWiki on the dreamhost servers, and it's slower then a granny shopping at the drug store.. Maybe when my dreamhost "time" is up, I'll check out that host Chris suggested...
-- spencerp http://spencerp.net
spencerp wrote:
I can agree with this, I'm currently running my MediaWiki on the dreamhost servers, and it's slower then a granny shopping at the drug store.. Maybe when my dreamhost "time" is up, I'll check out that host Chris suggested...
Dreamhost will move you onto less over-used resources if you ask them to. They did for me but only after I asked. To ask, log into your account at Dreamhost.com and in the left sidebar click on Support > Contact Support and tell them that your MediaWiki is running really slowly and could they please move you to a less over-used MySQL server because you think it would help. That's what I did and it helped. Page loads now are usually under 2 seconds for my Dreamhost virtual host wiki, http://wikigogy.org, whereas before page loads were anywhere from 2 to 8 seconds.
Page edits are still slow though!
Page edits takes 2-8 seconds to submit. Anyone know what's up with that? Normal? Feel free to test edits in my sandbox: http://wikigogy.org/Sandbox
No way I'm gona pay US$69.99/month for virtual hosting at Gigenet.com. I'd try OVH (in France) fist: http://www.ovh.com/en/mutualise/plans/60gp.html as recommended in an earlier post in this thread.
Thanks all!
Roger :-)
[Roger wrote> Dreamhost will move you onto less over-used resources if you ask them to. They did for me but only after I asked. To ask, log into your account at Dreamhost.com and in the left sidebar click on Support > Contact Support and tell them that your MediaWiki is running really slowly and could they please move you to a less over-used MySQL server because you think it would help. That's what I did and it helped.~~]
Yeah, I had already asked Glen to move my domain to a better server, from Liquoirce or whatever.. to Necco or whatever.. so that was done a few weeks ago.. But, I'll send Glen an email about my Wiki itself once.. and see what happens. :) ;) Thanks for the tip Roger.. ;) :)
[Roger wrote> Page loads now are usually under 2 seconds for my Dreamhost virtual host wiki, http://wikigogy.org, whereas before page loads were anywhere from 2 to 8 seconds.
Page edits are still slow though!
Page edits takes 2-8 seconds to submit. Anyone know what's up with that? Normal? Feel free to test edits in my sandbox: http://wikigogy.org/Sandbox~~~~~]
Nice!! I'll send Glen an email today then. :D ;) :) Page Edits slow time won't really bother me I guess.. I can live with that I suppose lol.. However, the accessing of the wiki itself is what is bothersome sigh. I'll see what Glenn can do for me.. :) ;)
[Roger wrote> No way I'm gona pay US$69.99/month for virtual hosting at Gigenet.com. I'd try OVH (in France) fist: http://www.ovh.com/en/mutualise/plans/60gp.html as recommended in an earlier post in this thread.~~~~]
Haha, I'll check that link out then.. I can't afford Virtual hosting myself, so.. hopefully Glen can get atleast get me on a better server for the Wiki.. ;) :) Thanks for your tips, suggestions, and so forth Roger.. ;) :)
-- spencerp http://spencerp.net
I am trying to set up a style for a bordered box that will hold quoted material followed by the book title and author. I want the quoted material to be in italics but for some reason, the Wiki isn't seeing things my way. Here's a sample, maybe someone can tell me where I've gone wrong?
I suspected it has something to do with the actual use of quotemarks that is breaking the css styling. Please note that I started out with the convential use of bracketing the text in triple single- quotes before experimenting with the text-style:italic. Neither one gives me what I want. Then I removed the quotemarks bracketing the material I wanted quoted just to make sure those marks weren't the problem. That produced no change, either.
This is coded right into a Wiki page and not currently a part of my Wiki's stylesheet:
<div style="margin-left:1.0cm;margin-right:1.0cm;font- size:80%;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text- align:left;color:#000;padding:0.8em 0.8em;"> <p style='text-style:italic'>"...the quoted material is entered here and should appear in italics."</p> <p style="text-align:right"> --BOOK TITLE by The Distinguished Author's Name </p> </div>
Sandy
Sandy Rozhon wrote:
I am trying to set up a style for a bordered box that will hold quoted material followed by the book title and author. I want the quoted material to be in italics but for some reason, the Wiki isn't seeing things my way. Here's a sample, maybe someone can tell me where I've gone wrong?
Use a <blockquote> HTML tag (or the wiki syntax for that), and style it with css in italics. No?
On 9 Jan 2007 at 21:14, Jérémie Bouillon wrote:
Sandy Rozhon wrote:
I am trying to set up a style for a bordered box that will hold quoted material followed by the book title and author. I want the quoted material to be in italics but for some reason, the Wiki isn't seeing things my way. Here's a sample, maybe someone can tell me where I've gone wrong?
Use a <blockquote> HTML tag (or the wiki syntax for that), and style it with css in italics. No?
Once I solve the problem of why the quoted material won't show up in italics, I could alter the blockquote css, but right now, I'm not getting any part of the text in italics the way I want.
Sandy
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:58:58 -0500 "Sandy Rozhon" srozhon@oh.rr.com wrote:
I am trying to set up a style for a bordered box that will hold quoted material followed by the book title and author. I want the
quoted material to be in italics but for some reason, the Wiki isn't seeing things my way. Here's a sample, maybe someone can tell me where I've gone wrong?
I suspected it has something to do with the actual use of quotemarks that is breaking the css styling. Please note that I started out with the convential use of bracketing the text in triple single- quotes before experimenting with the text-style:italic. Neither one gives me what I want. Then I removed the quotemarks bracketing the material I wanted quoted just to make sure those marks weren't the problem. That produced no change, either.
This is coded right into a Wiki page and not currently a part of my Wiki's stylesheet:
<div style="margin-left:1.0cm;margin-right:1.0cm;font- size:80%;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text- align:left;color:#000;padding:0.8em 0.8em;"> <p style='text-style:italic'>"...the quoted material is entered here and should appear in italics."</p> <p style="text-align:right"> --BOOK TITLE by The Distinguished Author's Name </p> </div>
Sandy
Sandy,
I believe the problem may be with your paragraph style "<p style='text-style: italic;'>".
I believe the proper syntax is: "<p style='font-style: italic;'>".
On 9 Jan 2007 at 13:14, Raquel wrote:
I believe the problem may be with your paragraph style "<p style='text-style: italic;'>".
I believe the proper syntax is: "<p style='font-style: italic;'>".
Ah, quite so! Thanks -- that solved the problem.
Sandy
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