Buyer's Guide
Weighing up wiki hosting
A straight answer for teams and communities assembling a shared body of knowledge: how to weigh the options, what to leave on the shelf, and the setup we would order.
Straight answer first
The short answer: go with MediaWiki or DokuWiki on a standard plan — installed in one click, on your own domain, exportable for as long as you keep it; a private team wiki simply adds a layer of access control.
Everything below unpacks that recommendation: the tests to apply, the classic mistake, and how to check any of it for yourself before spending a penny.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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Most advice on this subject is a ranking table funded by referral fees. This page works differently: name the buyer (teams and communities assembling a shared body of knowledge), name the tests, name the trap, and give a recommendation we are happy to defend across the counter.
Because DokuWiki keeps everything in files, it needs no database whatsoever. That makes it a badly underrated choice for a small team on modest hosting, with the full version history sitting right there in plain files. Keep that in view and most of the noise in this market sorts itself into signal.
What to measure before you order
Hold every candidate against these, in this order:
PHP and database requirements of the MediaWiki class, met without hand-waving.
An edit-heavy workload, where writing to disk matters as much as reading.
Storage that keeps growing as years of attachments accumulate.
Access control spanning open public wikis and private internal notes.
Read this before you compare price tags
Wiki farms whose export leaves half the content behind; a knowledge base is a decade-long asset and deserves a home it can leave.
The pattern lasts because its cost lands later: at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible point in your growth. The antidote is dull arithmetic — total cost across two or three years, with every 'extra' you would actually need added in.
Where we would honestly send you
MediaWiki or DokuWiki on a standard plan — installed in one click, on your own domain, exportable for as long as you keep it; a private team wiki simply adds a layer of access control.
On our shelves that means the Pro plan — SSL, migration and mail included, a renewal price matching the order price, and an upgrade path so the choice never has to be made again from scratch.
Backups run every day on every plan, and putting a file or a database back takes one click from the panel.
The homework worth doing first
Any host worth ordering from survives inspection: check the renewal price is printed on the tag rather than in a footnote, ask support a real question at an awkward hour and read the reply, comb the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a genuine business leaves a paper trail.
Then let the work decide. A fortnight of real use inside the money-back window tells you more than every review site put together, and switching costs nothing but the minute it takes to open a migration ticket.
No affiliate table, no ranking fee
Most 'best hosting' writing is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler motive: we recommend the setup we would sell you anyway, and we say so — which leaves the rest of the page free to be genuinely useful.
What you pay on day one is what you pay at renewal, so the year-two invoice holds no surprises worth opening early.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
A real ladder to climb
Shared, VPS and dedicated all under one roof — today's choice never boxes you in tomorrow.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The performance kit other hosts reserve for premium tiers is simply how our plans are built.
Written for the real buyer
The tests here come out of actual conversations with teams and communities assembling a shared body of knowledge, not off a feature spreadsheet.
A company you can look up
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host with a public record you can read before trusting.
A refund without a gauntlet
If it does not suit, leaving is a request rather than a negotiation — which is why we are content to be tested.
The essentials on the tag
SSL, migration, backups and mail come with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
Price Tags Compared
Our figures beside the big names
Sign-up and renewal prices for GoDaddy, Hostinger and Namecheap, set next to ours — the second number most comparison charts leave off.
| Line item | Hosting SellerBest seller | GoDaddy | Hostinger | Namecheap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / mo* | $2.09/mo | $5.99 | $2.99 | $1.88 |
| Price at renewal / mo | $2.09/mo | $11.99 | $10.99 | $4.29 |
| Entry plan renews at the same price | ||||
| SSL on every plan | ||||
| Site migration included | ||||
| NVMe storage on the entry plan | ||||
| Daily backups on the entry plan | ||||
| Live human support, 24/7 |
*Our figure is the cheapest plan we sell, on an annual term. The competitor figures are the lowest shared-hosting price each of them published in July 2026 — those introductory rates normally require signing up for 1–4 years and rise once that term ends. Check their own sites for what they charge today.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison, so write it before you go shopping.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
Order, move a real site across free, and use it properly for a fortnight — the daily experience is the product, and the window makes trying it cost nothing.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Upgrades apply to the account in place, with no move between plans
- A 30-day money-back guarantee on every hosting plan
- Site migration done for you by our staff, at no charge
- NVMe SSD storage on every shelf, not just the top one
- LiteSpeed caching running at the server, not bolted on by plugin
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for your own client
- The renewal price printed on the tag matches the order price
- Mailboxes that carry your own domain name
- PHP versions picked per site from the panel
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
MediaWiki, or something lighter than that?
MediaWiki when you want public scale and an editing culture people already know. DokuWiki for team simplicity, with no database and trivial backups. BookStack if you want something modern and structured. All three run happily on our standard plans.
How does a private team wiki stay private?
Accounts inside the application, and for the cautious a second layer at hosting level — a password-protected directory or an IP allowlist in front. Both fittings come as standard here.
What uptime do you commit to, and who is watching?
We commit to 99.9% uptime and watch it continuously. That figure is an operational target rather than a poster line, and the alerting behind it usually has an engineer on a problem before the first customer notices anything is wrong.
Does hosting come with mailboxes?
It does — mailboxes on your own domain ship with every hosting plan, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP access and spam filtering fitted as standard. There is also standalone email hosting for domains whose website lives somewhere else entirely.
How do I read the mail when I am away from the desk?
Webmail opens in any browser, and every mailbox also speaks IMAP, POP and SMTP — so the mail app on your phone, the client on your desktop and webmail all show the same messages in the same order.
Can I bring a domain I already own?
Yes, and transfers in are routine. Unlock the name at your present registrar, collect the auth code, then start the transfer from your client area. Whatever registration time is left comes across with it, and DNS keeps answering the whole way through.
Can I set the PHP version myself?
Yes — PHP versions are chosen per site from the control panel, so an old application and a current one can sit side by side on the same account. Extensions and per-site settings live in the same screen, and none of it needs a support ticket.
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