I have both a locally hosted and a "cloud" hosted Mediawiki install.
The cloud hosted one is a one-click install on DreamHost. I am pleased
with DreamHost as a hosting service and use it for other things
including Wordpress and dotProject. Incidently, I also manage a
Hostmonster hosted wordpress install and have had no problem with them
although I haven't used Mediawiki on their service.

Edward

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Derek Merleaux
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> Hi Jeremy,
> I was recently recommended to Digital Ocean for simple low-cost hosting and
> have been quite pleased with the service. They also have some very
> easy-to-follow documentation and instructions for setting up all sorts of
> basic server-side software including mediawiki
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mediawiki-on-ubuntu-12-04
> (this is for Ubuntu Linux, but there are many other OS available too.
> Good luck w/ your wiki!
> -Derek
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Sylvain Machefert <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Jeremy,
>> as Craig said, I think you mean Mediawiki :
>> - Wikipedia : the well-known encyclopedia project
>> - Wikimedia Foundation : the foundation running the servers of the
>> previous project (+ some others) and managing infrastructure / legal /
>> funds and so on
>> - Mediawiki : the open source software running all Wikimedia Foundation
>> projects, available as an open source product.
>>
>> Mediawiki is built on PHP/Mysql and can easily be installed on almost any
>> hosting provider, but depending of the plugins you want, maybe you will
>> reach limitations of the lowcost hosting offers. For example, if you want
>> to use one of the biggest Mediawiki improvement of the last year,
>> VisualEditor which allows your user to contribute to the wiki without
>> knowing the wikicode ([[link]], '''bold''', == Title == ...) you have to
>> install an extra tool and that can be tricky on some hosts :
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor )
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Sylvain
>>
>> Le 16/12/2014 01:28, Jeremy C. Shellhase a écrit :
>>
>>  Does anybody have a recommendation for a hosting service for Wikimedia?
>>> I'd normally think of installing something like this locally, but our
>>> centralized IT isn't up to the task and I have no staff or servers
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to use plug-ins that I find and be able to use our
>>> campus' CAS/LDAP for authentication instead of host-based.
>>>
>>> We're just looking to replicate the internal communication services of an
>>> intranet web server for a small (31 person) Library.
>>>
>>> Happy holidays to all.
>>>
>>> Jeremy C. Shellhase
>>> Systems Librarian *and*
>>> Bibliographer/Instructor for Business, Economics, Education, Child
>>> Development, Psychology, Social Work
>>> Humboldt State University Library
>>> One Harpst Street
>>> Arcata, California 95521
>>> 707-826-3144 (voice)
>>> 707-826-3441 (fax)
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>>>
>>