Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi everyone,
Some time back XWiki SAS, the company who started XWiki had a free online farm on xwiki.com. This farm was closed for new projects a few months ago after XWiki SAS realized it didn't have the manpower (or finance) to support it in a professional way. XWiki SAS still has a professional farm offering but it's not a free farm (see http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Services/#HHosting) .
I'd like to discuss with you the idea of offering a free farm managed by the xwiki community and under the xwiki.org umbrella. In essence it means there would be 2 farms available: * a paying one which is on xwiki.com, for professional needs * a free one on xwiki.org for universities, individuals or anyone not requiring guaranteed support/availability at all times
Here's how it would work:
* No support guarantee. All support done on the xwiki.org user mailing list. * No stability guarantee. We would always install the latest Platform/ XE/XEM version on it and it would serve as a stability test for the xwiki development team. Obviously the community will always try to make it as stable as possible but that's not guaranteed. * There will be several members of the community who'll have admin access on the farm. * We will reduce admin tasks by offering a simple UI on the farm itself (restart, see memory stats, see blocking requests, ban a wiki, etc)
Hi Vincent, sounds like a great idea. My company specializes in SaaS Enablement and Automation software development. We would be glad to donate software and expertize for automating the admin tasks. -- Regards Gabe Wong NGASI AppServer Manager JAVA AUTOMATION and SaaS Enablement <a href=http://www.ngasi.com>http://www.ngasi.com</a> NEW! 8.0 - Centrally manage multiple physical servers