Thread:Extension talk:VisualEditor/Will VisualEditor run on hosted servers?/reply

VisualEditor itself does not depend on any hosted services. For application within MediaWiki it requires an HTML DOM. As long as we are storing wikitext as the canonical format and needing to convert it to an HTML DOM for VisualEditor, it will require a Parsoid service running. If a wiki would store HTML instead of wikitext, Parsoid would not be required. Depending on whether you want to allow people to edit in wikitext still, you'd still need Parsoid for the other way around, naturally. But I imagine it will be possible in the future to set up a new wiki (or convert an existing wiki) to only store and edit the HTML, so VisualEditor would not need a Parsoid service in that case.

VisualEditor nor Parsoid require the MediaWiki service to be on the same server, so yes a remotely hosted service is totally possible. However you'd need to find someone to run that.