Hosting Options
From Nomicapolis
Running a nomic entirely on a wiki is pretty technically demanding, and right now we're running into some pretty nasty limits of the current software: a venerable MediaWiki 1.5, a version that lacks even the basic parser functions that are standard to wikipedia. Getting things like random numbers requires some pretty novel tricks (which I'll admit was pretty creative, but it's not exactly a pool you can sample from quickly). Furthermore, it runs on a shared wikifarm, making writing custom extensions a non-starter.
I'm willing to host Nomicapolis on nomic.info -- here's the vital stats:
- Hosted on slicehost.com, which is run by a couple geeks who don't know the meaning of "oversell".
- Xen VPS on an AMD Opteron 64 box: 256M ram, 10GB storage, 100GB bandwidth (not hard-capped, a slashdotting won't take it out)
- Debian Sid x86_64. Software-wise, anything's possible. PHP5, MediaWiki 1.10, Postgres, all installed. I have root, and I'm not afraid to use it.
I'll grant that editthis.info is a known quantity, and that a new host is unknown territory, but slicehost seems to be managed pretty well, and well, Dreamhost is not without its own problems. Administratively, I'd be willing to provide shell accounts for other admins in order to get database dumps and maintain the server, so even if I got hit by a bus, data won't get lost.
chuck 01:52, 31 May 2007 (EDT)
