MediaWiki Hosting

MediaWiki is available as an easy, one-click install on our web hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated server hosting plans with Softaculous. Managed VPS Hosting customers subscribing to Softaculous will experience the same simple install of MediaWiki. Every A2 Hosting account provides webmasters with the resources necessary to install a custom copy of MediaWiki. Current versions of PHP, MySQL and Apache are listed as the server requirements to run this auction software solution. A2 Hosting currently supports PHP 5.2.9, MySQL 5 and Apache 2.2. Select A2 Hosting as your MediaWiki hosting provider!

Overview

Wikis have become massively popular on the web as a platform for collaboration, project development and management, community discussion, online education and much more. Among wiki software packages, MediaWiki is one of the most popular with thousands of sites using MediaWiki worldwide including the largest user-contributed encyclopedia on the Internet, Wikipedia. We even run our own user-driven A2 Hosting Wiki using MediaWiki.

Media Wiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation. MediaWiki uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database.

Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily.

MediaWiki tracks the history of pages by writing edits to the database, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. Media Wiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching for improved performance.

For help with MediaWiki installation and configuration, see the Mediawiki Installation Page.