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MediaWiki Hosting

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Wiki Hosting

The Best MediaWiki Hosting Solution.

Each of our web hosting solutions are fine-tuned, blazing fast and are ready for you! Choose the high speed package tailored for your needs.

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*The promotional price shows the term with the best pricing and changes depending on plan. View all plans to see additional term options. The plan will renew at the regular rate at the end of the introductory term.

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Up To 20X FASTER MediaWiki Hosting

  • Better SEO Ranking
  • Lower Bounce
  • Higher Conversion
40% Faster CPUs
9x Higher Traffic
3x Faster Read & Write

When searching for MediaWiki Hosting, choose the blazing fast host who has many years of MediaWiki experience. That’s A2 Hosting! Your wiki be hosted on our high performance SwiftServer platform. You can even choose our Turbo Servers featuring page loads up to 20X faster compared to competing MediaWiki Hosting services!

Best MediaWiki Web Hosting

You want to get your wiki up and running fast without any hassle. We get it! Not only does your account features the award winning and user-friendly cPanel control panel, your software setup is a breeze thanks to our easy 1-click MediaWiki install. Even users who have never run a wiki before will find our setup easy.

Have any MediaWiki Hosting questions? We’re here to help! Just contact our 24/7/365 Guru Crew day or night. They’re friendly, knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with. You can contact them via phone, email or live chat. They can tell you all our solutions, including about how when your wiki grows in popularity, we have tools to help it continue to run at peak performance. We have free tools like our free content delivery network (CDN). Just opt into our CDN with a single click to supercharge your site’s performance. Our team can also tell you all about how our service is ultra-reliable and backed by our 99.9% Uptime Commitment. That means you and your visitors will be able to depend on your wiki site being up and running!

Get started now! We’re so confident that you’ll love our MediaWiki Hosting service, we’ll let you try us completely risk free with our Money-Back Guarantee! You won’t regret it!

Looking for additional wiki hosting options? MediaWiki is an excellent wiki solution, but you may also want to consider using DokuWikiPmWikior Tiki Wiki. Best of all, A2 Hosting has got you covered regardless of which of these wiki solutions you want to host!

What is MediaWiki?

MediaWiki is an open source wiki software solution that works very much like an interactive, online encyclopedia. In fact, MediaWiki was originally written to power the extremely popular site Wikipedia. MediaWiki is perfect for use by both organizations and individuals. It is especially useful for organizations allowing them to have a central location for their procedures and all of their other crucial information laid out in an attractive manner. It is also useful because it is easily editable by users who have less technical experience. Users will appreciate the simple wiki markup. That makes it possible for any employee or user to edit a MediaWiki article or add their own content without a problem.

MediaWiki Features

One of the reasons MediaWiki is such a popular solution is because of its wide range of features that make it easy to use. Here are a few examples of that functionality:

  • MediaWiki features a large selection of plugins to allow you to extend your wiki site and customize it to your particular needs.
  • MediaWiki uses wikitext format for editing pages meaning that users do not need to know CSS or HTML. This is a key feature in making MediaWiki a user-friendly solution.
  • Edits to a MediaWiki page are written to the database, but any previous versions of the edited page are not deleted. This is to make it easy to revert back to previous pages in the case of a spammer or site vandal making unwanted changes to your site.
  • MediaWiki supports a number of media formats in addition to traditional text including videos and images.

How MediaWiki Got Its Start

MediaWiki can trace much of its origins to the extremely popular wiki site Wikipedia. Without Wikipedia, there’s a high likelihood that the software would never gotten its launch.

Wikipedia was started back in 2001. This period of Wikipedia’s history is known as Phase I. At the time, Wikipedia was powered by a solution called UseModWiki. While this was a decent start for Wikipedia, it was evident that the site would need a different solution to really have it see the popularity the site founders were envisioning. In particular, speed and additional functionality were the focal points for the next phase of improvements.

A student developer named Magnus Manske began writing a solution to replace UseModWiki. Unlike UseModWiki, which was written with Perl, Manske wrote his solution in PHP and used MySQL as the database backend. His solution was referred to as both “the PHP script” and “phase II”. Phase II was rolled out in January 2002 to power Wikipedia.

While Phase II worked well for a little while, Wikipedia began to continue to grow. It was decided that another round of improvements were going to have to be made. Lee Daniel Crocker was tasked with creating phase III. His wiki version was more scalable, a feature that was much needed for the growing needs of Wikipedia.

Phase III was launched in July 2002. Finally, in June of the next year, the Wikimedia Foundation was created. A key Wikipedia contributor named Daniel Mayer recommended that this newest phase and software solution be re-named to MediaWiki. It was also decided that MediaWiki would be released for public use. MediaWiki was officially released a few months later in December of 2003.

Fast MediaWiki Hosting Rich With Features!

Here are just a few of the many ways A2 Hosting’s solutions will make your life easier…

  • High-Performance
  • 1-click setup
  • Developer Friendly
  • Perpetual Security

A mere 1-second page load delay impacts your bounce rateSEO rankings, your conversion rate and ultimately your bottom line! You won’t have to worry about any of this when you choose A2 Hosting and our screaming fast SwiftServer platform! That’s because your sites come hosted on our speed optimized servers with your choice of server location, free SSDs, LiteSpeed web server and our up to 20X faster Turbo Server option all leading to better website performance! Our Turbo Servers now feature AMD EPYC Servers with NVMEe drives with:

  • 40% Faster CPU Performance
  • 2X Faster To First Byte
  • Can Handle 9X More Traffic
  • 3X Faster Read/Write Speeds

Setup your MediaWiki software with a single click using Softaculous in your control panel. It couldn’t be easier or faster to get your site up and running! You’ll automatically get an email notifying you when a new MediaWiki version becomes available. You’ll be able to log into your control panel and update your MediaWiki install with a single click, so you get the latest features and the most secure settings!

Since our launch in 2003, we’ve had a strong focus on loading your account with the best versions of the most popular development software. Our servers support older versions too! Just some of the development software available in your account includes:

PHP 5.6, 7.1-7.4, 8.0 or 8.1 (Choose Your Version) MySQL 5.6MariaDB PostgreSQL 9.6 Python 3.4 PERL 5.10 Apache 2.4 Node.js 12 FTP / SFTP Free SSH Access SSLFree SSL

An average of 30,000 sites are hacked each day globally. Our Perpetual Security measures help prevent you from becoming the next victim! That’s why your account include free HackScan Protection to help block hacks before they can do damage to your site. KernelCare rebootless kernel updates, brute force defense, a dual firewall and a number of other security features are already in place to help keep your site secure when you choose A2 Hosting. Our Reinforced distributed denial of service ( DDoSProtection even improves the likelihood your site will remain online during even the most sophisticated distributed denial of service attacks.

Experience The A2 Difference

Up To 20X Faster Turbo

Up To 20X
Faster Turbo

That means better SEO rankings, lower bounce rates & higher conversion rates!

Guru Crew Support

Guru Crew
Support

Our friendly and knowledgeable support team is available 24/7/365 to help!

Free Account Migration

Free Account
Migration

Our team can move your site to A2 Hosting for free in most cases!

Money-Back Guarantee

Money-Back
Guarantee

Give our high speed hosting service a try completely risk-free!

99.9% Uptime Commitment

99.9% Uptime
Commitment

A2 Hosting is the host you can depend on with ultra-reliable servers!

Questions? We’re Here to Help.

Our A2 Sales Team is available 24/7 to help you understand which plan will work for your unique needs!

Additional MediaWiki Hosting Software Alternatives & Options

DokuWiki

DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a user-friendly and flexible wiki solution that doesn’t need a database. It is especially popular among its users because of its clean and easy to read syntax.

Tiki Wiki

Tiki Wiki

Tiki is a mature wiki solution that has been actively developed since 2002. With a team of more than 250 people having contributed source code, Tiki Wiki has one of the largest open source teams in the world.

PmWiki

PmWiki

PmWiki is a wiki system making it easy to collaborate in the creation and maintenance of your website. Pages look and behave just as a regular page aside from an “Edit” link that makes for easy updates.

PhpWiki

PhpWiki

PhpWiki is a clone of WikiWikiWeb. PhpWiki makes it easy for anyone to edit your site through a simple HTML form.

Your A2 Hosting account offers a number of software solution options that include DokuWiki, MediaWiki and PmWiki. These solutions offer functionality to help you to create a site with similar functionality as Wikipedia. A wiki makes it easy for multiple users to collaborate on content directly from within a web browser. Most wiki solutions offer an easy markup language so even non-technical users are able to edit a page. Wikis are often times used, both for external and internal use, for documentation purposes. It essentially makes it intuitive for organizations and communities to generate content that can easily be browsed or searched for the desired information .

MediaWiki Hosting – Industry Best Solutions

Our goal isn’t to win awards. Our goal is to offer the best web host solutions that are both blazing fast and ultra-reliable. Even so, we’re still extremely proud of our team’s accomplishments! Since our launch in 2003, their hard work has helped us earn recognition and accolades as the top hosting provider in the industry.  

HostingFacts.com Fastest Hosting Award | A2 Hosting
Digital.com Best Web Hosting 2020 Award Badge | A2 Hosting
HostingAdvice Developers' Choice Award Badge | A2 Hosting
Web Hosting Leader Summer 2024 Award | A2 Hosting
PCMag.com Editors' Choice Award Bade | A2 Hosting

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