User talk:Lucien
All hail big chief :notworthy: -- Dancingmeerkat 15:15, 8 Jul 2005 (SAST)
Request for info
Request for info: Q & A suggestion for http://www.sisterswiki.org/index.php/sisters_wiki_dot_org:About
Back on the old wikihost.org tsom site, you wrote "Thanks to the sturclub wiki, but we've gone now. To a proper server running genuine wiki software. (So long and thanks for all the fish.)"
Can you elaborate on "proper server", and maybe on "genuine wiki software"?
I mean, I know this is MediaWiki software, but are you paying for hosting,
or did you set it up and start it running on a private server?
I'd like to set up one of my own, but I don't have my own web server, so I'm looking for tips.
Thanks!
- cisco_kid, Sept. 8, 2005; 18:55 PDT
p.s. Yeah! Sisters of MercY!
re: Request for info
Firstly, I didn't write the comment on the old wiki, that was probably done by the Meerkat but I support it fully.
The general feeling is that we wanted something of our own and I was in a postition to offer free hosting for this site and saw it as a worthy cause.
The main reasons for moving away from wikihost.org as I see it are:
1. We're not dependent on anyone else, if wikihost.org went down we'd loose all our info. This way even if I'm no longer able to host this site I can still offer the domain and database to someone else. I have no plans of doing this but it is good to know this can happen. We also have three other admins who could take a dump of the DB if required.
2. Images: we can host them here, I don't think wikihost.org offered that option.
3. Personalisation: so far we haven't but we can modify the look and feel of this forum to suite us. I don't think Sisters fans are gernerally keen on lime green ;-)
A little about the server hosting this site: It's a standard linux based web server running mirror drives for redundancy, the software required is nothing special: just Apache with PHP enabled and a MySQL server. All the software is free (in every sense).
Hope that info helps.
--Lucien 11:10, 9 Sep 2005 (SAST)
