One of the bigger questions I have about the potential shift to requiring
services is the fate of shared hosting deployments of MediaWiki.
Seems like an opportunity. "Deploy your MediaWiki-Vagrant instance to our
cloud infrastructure cheap." It's not $2/month, but Digital Ocean can host
a 1GB VM for $10/month. Maybe
https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ will host
vagrant boxes cheaper.
Docker allows many Linux containers on the same physical system which
should lead to lower pricing. Some MediaWiki dockerfiles install Parsoid
and nodejs as well as MediaWiki and PHP, e.g. CannyComputing
<https://github.com/CannyComputing>/*frontend-mediawiki
<https://github.com/CannyComputing/frontend-mediawiki>* , or you'd have
separate container for each service. I can't figure out the pricing.
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=S Page WMF Tech writer