• 1. Identify hosts with most shared hosting customers
• 2. Determine ideal criteria list
• 3. Test
• 4. Get in touch with these companies
• 5. Improving handling of LTS versions
• 6. Todo
• 7. The list
  • Go Daddy
  • 1 & 1
  • Bluehost
  • HostMonster
  • Dreamhost
  • HostGator
  • OVH
  • Funio
    • Account with Funio for Tiki
    • An opinion about Funio
  • Site5
  • IPOWERWEB
  • Powweb
  • iPage
  • Yahoo! Small Business
• Also to investigate
  • SiteGround
  • Arvixe
  • Webhostingpad
• 8. On list?
  • Hostpapa
  • Rackspace
• Related videos
• Related links

Sometimes, shared hosts can have a certain configuration/setup which makes Tiki more difficult to install. Ex.: Site5 and thus people will end up not using Tiki because they can't install it.

There are many benefits for a hosting company to offer Tiki and we want as many as possible Tiki Friendly Hosts.

This is related to 1-click installers. We'll want to make a page like this.

We are not concerned with v-servers of dedicated servers as people that get these can configure them as they please.

• Must work well with Tiki
  • We'll do a first check with the new Server check script and Permission Check scripts
  • See reviews/reports in Tiki Friendly Hosts
• Recent versions of PHP/MySQL
• Buy domain names
• SSH is quite important
  • Should work with TRIM (SVN, etc.)
• E-mail is standard (with redirect)
• .htaccess support
• Cron job support
• One-click backups
  • Ideally, automateable offsite backups
• Must work with 1-click installers
• Support
• Affordable pricing but doesn't need to be the lowest
• Ideally, have reseller plan to make it easier for consultants
  • And/or Affiliate commissions
• Have a CDN option like CloudFlare has with Bluehost and Arvixe and others
• wkhtmltopdf

• Get accounts with those companies and do test installs and upgrades
• Document how it went, and important to note any exceptions
• Link to known-good sites (such as those listed as Featured Tikis)
• Use the Server Check script.

To be part of their installers and see if they can adopt the same LTS cycle than Tiki has. Here is Message to 1-click installers about Tiki LTS

• When people install/upgrade, they should indicate if they want LTS or frequent updates
  • We need to improve the Update notifier Done for Tiki10

• Monitoring all test sites from the 1-click installers

• http://godaddy.com
• http://hostingconnection.godaddy.com/
• http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/1724
• http://help.godaddy.com/article/3979?locale=en

• http://1and1.com
• Click-n-build applications
  • Tiki is in the list, but which version?
• http://www.apsstandard.org/
  • http://apsstandard.org/forums/viewthread/20/
• 1and1 install

• http://www.bluehost.com/
  • http://tutorials.bluehost.com/simplescripts/
• Related to HostMonster
• Part of EIG
• More info at: Bluehost

  
  

• http://www.hostmonster.com/
  • Uses SimpleScripts
• Related to Bluehost
• Part of EIG
• More info at: HostMonster

• http://www.dreamhost.com/
• http://www.dreamhostapps.com/free-web-app-hosting.html
• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Available_One_Click_Installs
• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Tiki_Wiki_CMS_Groupware

• http://www.hostgator.com/ "Now hosting over 8,000,000 domains!"
• Hostgator offers QuickInstall, an in-house script auto-installer, which is like Fantastico.
  • Tiki is offered, but which version?
  • In the list, it should be called Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
    • another list
• Part of EIG

• 1 Click Solutions
• http://www.ovh.ie/web-hosting/
• They use Tiki: http://guides.ovh.com/

• http://funio.com/
  • Funio offers softaculous

• Site5
  • Moving to Softaculous

• http://www.ipowerweb.com/
  • Uses SimpleScripts (according to tech support chat)
• Related to Powweb
• Part of EIG

• http://www.powweb.com/
  • PowWeb's Script Library
  • Uses SimpleScripts (according to tech support chat)
• Related to IPOWERWEB
• Part of EIG

• Uses SimpleScripts
• Part of EIG

• http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/compare-plans

• SiteGround
• http://blog.siteground.com/softaculous-replaces-fantastico/

• Arvixe

• http://www.webhostingpad.com/
  • Uses Softaculous

Do these people have significant shared hosting offers (although they have lots of dedicated servers)

• They use Fantastico

• Not known for shared hosting

Here is the study mentioned in the video.

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• http://trends.builtwith.com/hosting/top
• http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-got-the-most-web-servers/
• http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/global/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_web_hosting_service
• http://news.netcraft.com/hosting-provider-server-count/
• http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/08/07/a-look-at-the-size-and-growth-of-the-largest-us-hosting-companies/
• http://www.simplescripts.com/articles/simplescripts_system_requirements