Thread:Talk:Hosting services/Candidate for deletion/reply (7)

This discussion was started before the deletion notice was put up and wasn't started as a response to the current deletion request. Regardless, I would support deleting this page for several reasons:


 * This page has become a target for spammers and those wishing to promote their companies. It's essentially serving as an advertisement with little benefit to the MediaWiki community.
 * Pretty much every hosting provider out there supports MediaWiki, even if they don't explicitly say so. If a hosting provider has PHP and MySQL (which just about everyone has), the end user can run MediaWiki without any issues.
 * There's no end to the list. We'd have to list every hosting provider out there. It'll be much easier for end users to simply search for hosting themselves, as pretty much every hosting company can run MediaWiki.
 * A list of farms is already available on Wikipedia.
 * As far as I know, no one here has actually validated the listed companies' claims to offer "optimized" MediaWiki hosting or "specialized" MediaWiki hosting. I'm fairly certain those are merely marketing terms and the performance and security wouldn't differ from "generic" hosting.