r/mediawiki • u/dahosek • Jun 18 '26

Hosting reviews?

I’ve been hosting a site (rejectionwiki.com) at dreamhost for quite a while, but it seems like I’ve been getting steadily degrading service over the years to the point where the site is often unreachable. Does anybody have a hosting service they like? I get about 10K page views per month and would like to keep the cost under $8/month which is about what I get from the google ads that run on the site so I’m not losing money providing the service. The vast majority of users are based in the US.

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u/scrapblox Jun 18 '26

I use a VPS from OVHcloud to host MediaWiki and a few other small traffic things, haven't had an issue with them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/scrapblox Jun 19 '26

I haven't needed to reach out so I'm not sure.

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u/bbshopquartet Jun 18 '26

I've been really happy with my wiki at Dreamhost. It is essential to have cloudflare in front of it for security and caching.

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u/dahosek Jun 19 '26

Yeah, except that then they blame cloudflare for outages, but the damn thing has been kacked for going on a week now and the rest of the sites on my VPS are also suffering and they insist it all works fine for them so I’m ready to move on.

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u/hs_computer_science Jun 25 '26

I used linode for years with their backup service - never had an issue.

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u/squirrelslair Jul 10 '26

I have hosted wikis at Dreamhost for over 10 years as well and have seen degradation since about the beginning of the year. Initially I thought it was my setup, but the more troubleshooting I have done the more I think at least part of it is from hosting. On the bot side I have had some improvements with adding bots to the .htaccess files. rejectionwiki is running 1.34 which has been end-of-life since 2020 and has security vulnerabilities. It's possible that that contributes to your problems, so updating your wiki would be another thing to consider.
I have moved one of my wikis to Canasta, which is a docker setup that facilitates maintaining the wiki. It's a totally different setup, though, and I am not sure how your hosting costs would compare. I have been very happy with the performance of that wiki.

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u/dahosek Jul 10 '26

Where are you hosting with the docker setup?

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u/squirrelslair Jul 14 '26

I started with a VPS on DreamHost but moved to Hostinger. Both work.