On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:11:16 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Question for the group:
Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting service be useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time, expertise, or resources to maintain their own installation?
If so, what can we (as interested parties in MediaWiki development and use) do to make this happen?
-- brion
This topic and some of the stuff I've been reading (Google App Engine's PHP docs, various AWS docs, etc...) has brought up a few new additions to my old ideas around wiki hosting, especially my old self-serve idea.
Reading the AWS docs also gave me the thought of a wiki host run on AWS with load balancers, auto-scaled servers (the source of the wiki code in some object store or something not dependent on a server's filesystem), and the job queue in SQS using spot-instances occasionally to chew through the job queue by temporarily spawning a normally expensive server at a cheap price.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]