This page lists administrators' experiences with using PmWiki on various web hosting services. Feel free to add your own experiences, good or bad. Pm? is always interested in knowing how PmWiki can be improved to work on more WebHosts.

See also PmwikiFriendlyHosting.

Anyone want to try to sort the list alpabetically? --Doug Parker Done - DaveCooke?

See also :

• hosts in Germany?
• hosts in France

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www.100mb4free.de

Found it today. 100 MB free webspace, ftp and browser upload, PHP, MySQL, Perl/CGI and 100 % free. That's what they promise. So PmWiki should work. It works! Only problem was chmod command, which needed a prefix "site". In total: site chmod 2777 /PmWiki Now I have to do a lot to customize it...

If you like to see it under construction with the marathon skin: http://www2.100mb4free.de/armin/PmWiki/pmwiki.php or with a much nicer URL http://wiki.de.be

-Armin (a proud PmWiki Host)

100webspace.com

Free web hosting service that I am actually using, 100Mo, 3000Mo/month bandwith. Inconvenients : banner. 2.0 PmWiki works fine on it.

3rror.com

all the bells and whistles. FREE. with cpanel, mysql, php, FTP, fantastico. Hosted on freeBSD system with unlimited bandwidth from 10mb to 200mb on request. No advertisements.

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A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting offers PMWiki hosting plans from just $4.95/month. They offer the latest Linux Hosting technology (including PHP) and great support from their Guru Crew. They are risk free with a 30 day money back guarantee.

Abyss Webserver (local server on Windows/Linux/Mac/freeBSD)

Xitami gave me a few troubles, Apache is a bit bigger (around 50x), Abyss is the smallest and never let me down (http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/php.html) -- Sure Its The Truth

alturo.de

german low cost hoster (offspin from 1&1), works great with the "webmaster package" that also comes with shell access -Uli?

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Bionic-Hosting - unfortunately no longer with us

A relatively new player in the field. I'm very happy with the results. I've got a lot of pagelisting and other resource-hungry scripts and still getting a reasonable speed. FTP and control panel always available (not always been so with other hosts in the past. -DaveCooke?

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www.canaca.com

I have found PmWiki works fine with this inexpensive webhost.

Canadian Web Hosting.com

http://www.canadianwebhosting.com/faq.asp Inexpensive, helpful, fast, tons of features with even the basic package (cpanel, mysql, php, FTP, WebMail, phpBB, couple of pre-loaded cgi scripts, Fantastico, php, Perl, thought it had Python but isn't on the list). Several packages between basic (which runs PmWiki quite happily) to virtual reseller packages, so something in every price range. Helpful support staff.

www.cjb.cc - failed

cjb.cc is a free webhost offering 100 MB free space without advertising. I could change permissions to 2777, could install all PmWiki files, could test it and it worked! Sounds nice, well, it worked for about 10 seconds. Than I realized: many files were just deleted and I did remember that at this webhost only these: .txt|\.htm|\.html|\.js|\.css|\.log|.cfg|\.jpg|\.gif|\.png|\.php|\.inc\.tpl file types are allowed and "Any other files located by Cjb.cc will be automatically deleted by the server." Yes, it did! -Armin

Other free webhosts - failed too I'll add the other failed webhosts I tried later. In all cases I could not change permission to 2777.

-Armin

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data393.com

This is the web hosting service that originally hosted pmwiki.org and pmichaud.com. So it works well with PmWiki. Good rates, good service.

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futurequest.net

Works well. Cookbooks work well here, especially things like Cookbook:SpellChecker since FQ servers are all Linux. Very flexible host for a shared host. Not necessarily the cheapest, and doesn't provide as much space/bandwidth as others, but a very reliable host with good support. Ccox?

freenet.de - failed

First a quick comment: yesterday I filed my question about a list of succesful PmWiki installations in the faq section, and just a few hours later it has it's own folder and already 3 listed points - GREAT!

Main problem with freenet.de (my payed webhost), I could not change the permission from 755 to 2777. Even 777 failed. I'm using FileZilla for ftp. In command line mode of FileZilla the command CHMODE is responded as unkown command. Due to crummy support (forget email, don't ask about service phone) I tried also other webhosts (see next entry). Sorry for maybe wrong non-expert-expressions, but I'm a Wiki-Newbie. -Armin

www.free.fr

Upload pmwiki files, rename pmwiki.php to index.php5 and it works. noe?

Right, I found a www.free.fr recommandation in the web as well: php support, cgi-bin, etc., but I would have to fight with this language -Armin

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globalweb.com.ru

This is another free host with FTP, PHP/MYSQL, Plesk control panel. 50 MB with 1000MB bandwidth per month. Has ads. Hosted using Redhat Linux.

What about godaddy? Any problems there?

No problems at all -- on their LINUX servers. Even supports ModRewrite based Clean URLs. Windows servers don't seem to have PHP support listed. (XES?)

When my site was at GoDaddy (using their linux economy package), my wiki pages took unacceptably long to render. (I have a large config.php and use lots of includes.) I moved to another host and the performance problem vanished. - RandyB

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hostingplex.com (Canadian Hosting Provider - RHat Virtual hosting)

Works perfectly. Only thing that needed some minor adjustment was permissions / ownership of the *.php files. SoundChaser?

www.hostmonster.com

Good rates, they allow shell access, ImageMagick is installed and 24/7 support. Works great...Keith

hostsharing.net

Community owned hosting service in Germany. No service, but great mailing-lists. No web-frontend, you have to install by command line. 2.0 PmWiki runs here. --scoid?

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www.icdsoft.com

This is a good host, $65 a year including domain, php, mysql if you want, infinite emails. Pmwiki works like a charm. They run redhat 9, apache and php 4.3 with latest security.

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1und1.de

No problem. German discounter, millions of domains are being hosted here. --scoid?

lunarpages.com (US Hosting Provider)

Works great without problems using smallest "Shuttle Hosting Plan". DanielFriedmann?

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www.micfo.com

Worked very nice when I signed up. Some times it has been too slow, but then they have moved me to another server, and things has been ok again. Has php/perl/python/ssh and lots of goodies. -- Tom Cato

mxhub.com

Very impressive and lightning fast. PmWiki works very smooth there. From $6/mo. mikei?

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`NearlyFreeSpeech

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ the original home of "only pay for what you use" hosting.
I've been using this web host for over a month to host my PmWiki installation and the last 3 weeks of June 2008 cost me $0.05.

net firms.com

(I (tca) had to split the server name to edit this page, since it was blocked.) I've recently installed PmWiki at Netfirms and it works perfectly! One thing: I cannot find the documentation for GroupAttributes... any advice? (see PmWiki.Passwords --Pm?)

nmmn.de
in its smallest offer, PmWiki runs here.
ISP runs its company, computers and routers with "green" electric power, here from Greenpeace Energy eG/ Germany. The only webhosting service, I know so far (not only in Germany, but international) with this particular offer. -- scoid?

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www.powervps.com

New home for pmwiki.org and pmichaud.com. Virtual Private Server. Full root access. 24/7 technical support.

Powweb.com

FreeBSD-based webhost without shell access. Pmwiki 1.0.13 standard install via untar/FTP/pmwiki.php worked and pmwiki seems to function well. -Marty

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www.readyhosting.com

My site is at www.ispinn.com/wiki. They moved my site to a newer server, breaking it, and they had to manually update the permissions to get it working again. Now that they've moved it, it's snappier. It had been dragging on the old system. Here's the scoop on their setup: (Patrick, et al.: Feel free to edit out anything that doesn't pertain to pmWiki's implementation. Thanks. --Doug Parker)

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siteburg.com

Another Free web hosting service that I've found. 100Mo, 10000Mo/month bandwith. Inconvenients : banner once again. Had some troubles with French accentuated character (using Firefox, those characters were transformed into code ; using IE 6, never managed to enter those characters properly).

www.siteground.com

They install scripts - including PMwiki - for free and have responded to help request tickets in minutes.

strato.de

one of germany's biggest hosting providers. 1.0.13 runs smooth in a PowerWeb A (since 10/2004). unpack, upload, basically done. config.php needs some edits ; especially when using file upload, enable sessionauth!

Other Comments

webhosts with 2777 problem

My web host doesn't give my any chance to change permission to 2777, but I do succeffuly installed wiki by creating needed directories manually and changing it's permissions to 777. --CleverFool