What are the benefits for a hosting company to offer Tiki?
- Tiki is a mature application and is vastly deployed on shared servers. It is widely tested in all kinds of configurations and keeps up to date with new versions of PHP, Apache, MySQL, etc
- Tiki is available via installers like Fantastico and Simple Scripts.
- Tiki has an all-in-one model. All the code is in one large package.
- Customers won't want/need to install 3rd party extensions (and won't be asking you install, configure and support!). It's all already there.
- This avoids all the issues of file permissions, messy/broken upgrades, etc.
- All features are optional, so customers can fully manage via admin panel (no need to fiddle settings in text files)
- Tiki includes several themes, and there are several zones to customize look & feel via the admin panel (Site title, subtitle, header, footer, etc).
- If customers need advanced themeing, they can make/download custom themes, and override anything (CSS or layout via Smarty Templates), without touching system files.
- Upgrades are very easy. Just overwrite files, and run installer, which upgrades the database.
- Tiki uses top notch, and actively developed underlying technology: PHP, Smarty, MySQL, Zend Framework and jQuery
- Tools for mass-management are available: Tiki Remote Instance Manager: TRIM, a combination of shell and PHP scripts to install, update, backup, restore and monitor (check security of) a large number of Tiki installations (instances).
- Tiki has a massive amount of features. It is a CMS and a Wiki and a Groupware. So customers can get all these benefits from a unified application.
- Tiki is very actively developed. -> http://cia.vc/stats/project/tikiwiki
- Tiki has a proven track record for security responsiveness. http://security.tikiwiki.org/
- Tiki has a predictable release schedule. 2 major versions per year, and minor versions as needed. Please see Roadmap.
- Performance & scalability: there are many different aspects (which have been developed from experience of so many live instances) to help here, such as:
- There are many levels of caching. Tiki natively uses Smarty caching, wiki page content caching (to avoid regenerating complex wiki pages) and various Tiki caches (to avoid hitting DB)
- Indexes in MySQL
- Tiki4 uses PDO
- There is also a "performance" admin panel. From here, can be deactivated features which are known to be CPU-intensive (like checking permissions on search results)
- There is also a setting to close a site and offer a message (ex.: Site is overloaded at the moment, please try again later) to avoid taking down the server.
- Tiki doesn't rely on dedicated server-only solutions to enhance performance (ex.: Squid caching)
- Tiki offers a profiles system. Thus preferences can be pre-set or managed. Profiles can also be deployed via the Tiki Remote Instance Manager: TRIM
- Say the hosting company wants to optimize Tiki settings (for performance, security or compatibility reasons) for all Tiki instances, they could do so via TRIM.
- The Tiki community is very responsive. If a hosting company detects performance bottlenecks, or security issues, we want to know about them quickly to solve them!
- Tiki is a community-managed open source project. There is no risk that one day the code will no longer be open source.
- Tiki is translated to over 35 languages, and thus interesting for customers all over the World.
- Even though Tiki is mostly used on shared servers, it is also used for high volume sites (with load balancing, memcached, etc) like http://support.mozilla.com/ (12 million page views per week)
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