History: Testing Tiki installations on major Shared Hosting companies
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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. ex.: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/One_Click_Installs
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
IPOWERWEB
HostMonster
Site5
5. On list?
Do these people have significant shared hosting offers (although they have lots of dedicated servers)
OVH
iWeb
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