On 10/01/2013 09:25 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
(I also strongly recommend having an official MediaWiki hosting & support service, with ad- and ad-free options, various degrees of customization vs automated service, etc. This'd cover a huge portion of the "I just need to stick a wiki somewhere" cases that are probably ending up on shared hosting because people don't have money for better hosting and/or the experience to run their own VM.)
Interestingly enough, that circles back to something I've been planning for Labs for a while now. "Our" use case is to allow easy deploy of MW installs with an arbitrary set of extensions and easy configuration for core and extension dev work (almost certainly based around vagrant), but that same setup/infrastructure should be reusable to do something like you describe.
-- Marc