[xwiki-users] Questions about the free hosted xwiki.

[jeremi joslin]

On 8/28/06, Ryan Wood <ryawood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been putting a lot of time into researching and testing wiki's to use
> for a work and document collaboration intranet for our non-profit
> organization that has highly non-technical users.  After tested hosted wikis
> and installing about 4 different wikis (mediawiki, pmwiki, wikkawiki, etc)
> on our hosted web server ( startlogic.com), and not being happy, I tried a
> xwiki.com wiki and I like the functunality and features.  It does not seem
> possible to install xwiki on a hosted web server (correct me if I am wrong)
> , so I have some questions about the free xwiki I am currently using:
>
> 1.  How much storage space does it offer per file and for the the whole
> wiki?  What other limits are there to the free version?  As an under-funded
> non-profit we are unable to afford a professional hosted version.
For the moment, it's not limited. But if you abuse, we will limit it.
the document size is not limited.


>
> 2.  I am a big fan of hosted services (gmail, salesforce, writely, etc.) but
> xwiki.com is not quite that large and known of a service host.  If we
> actually decide to built our intranet on xwiki.com, will we run into
> problems with downtime?  How high are the risks of the servers being shut
> down and losing all critical data?
The uptime of xwiki.com is pretty good. It's hosted on a cluster now.
But we are not like google, we can't tell you there will be no
downtown.

After, we have an hosting offer for non-profit association at 60$/month.


>
> 3.  Currently we are without time or resources to setup our own server, but
> eventually may want to set up our own server to run it.  Will it be possible
> to port our hosted xwiki onto our own server without losing data?
Yes, it's possible to export the datas.

-- 
jeremi