Goal: make sure as many people as possible have an easy experience to install Tiki.

Sometimes, shared hosts can have a certain configuration/setup which makes Tiki more difficult to install. Ex.: Site5 and thus people will end up not using Tiki because they can't install it.

There are many benefits for a hosting company to offer Tiki and we want as many as possible Tiki Friendly Hosts.

1. Identify hosts with most shared hosting customers

We are not concerned with v-servers of dedicated servers as people that get these can configure them as they please.

2. Test

• Get accounts with those companies and do test installs and upgrades
• Document how it went, and important to note any exceptions

3. Get in touch with these companies

• Try to be part of their installers.

4. The list

Go Daddy

http://godaddy.com
http://hostingconnection.godaddy.com/

1 & 1

http://1and1.com
http://www.apsstandard.org/
1and1 install

Bluehost

http://www.bluehost.com/
http://tutorials.bluehost.com/simplescripts/

Dreamhost

• http://www.dreamhost.com/
• http://www.dreamhostapps.com/free-web-app-hosting.html
• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Available_One_Click_Installs
• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Tiki_Wiki_CMS_Groupware

Hostgator

• http://www.hostgator.com/
• Hostgator offers QuickInstall, an in-house script auto-installer, which is like Fantastico.
  • Tiki is offered, but which version?
  • In the list, it should be called Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

IPOWERWEB

http://www.ipowerweb.com/

HostMonster

http://www.hostmonster.com/

Site5

• Site5

Also to investigate

Arvixe

• http://www.arvixe.com/tikiwiki_hosting

5. On list?

Do these people have significant shared hosting offers (although they have lots of dedicated servers)

OVH

iWeb

These people have grown significantly in the past 15 years. They serve French, English and Spanish customers. The Tiki installation is by FTP.

• Here is an invitation to place Tiki in forefront of their cPanel prefered download

Rackspace

Related links

• http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-got-the-most-web-servers/
• http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/global/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_web_hosting_service
• http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/08/07/a-look-at-the-size-and-growth-of-the-largest-us-hosting-companies/
• http://www.simplescripts.com/articles/simplescripts_system_requirements