Buying Guide
Wiki Hosting, settled in one page
A direct answer for teams and communities building a shared body of documented knowledge: how to weigh the field, what to rule out early, and the setup we would take ourselves.
The short answer
Straight to it: installing MediaWiki or DokuWiki on a standard plan: one click, your own domain, and a full export available for as long as you own it, with a private team wiki being the same setup plus an access layer.
The rest of the page shows the working behind that call: which checks to run, the mistake to avoid, and how to verify every claim yourself before money moves.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026
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Most writing on this subject is a league table funded by referral fees. We do it differently: name the buyer (teams and communities building a shared body of documented knowledge), name the checks, name the trap, and make a recommendation we will defend in the open.
Storing every page and every revision as a plain text file, DokuWiki runs with no database at all. That makes it a badly underrated option for a small team on a modest plan, since backing up the whole knowledge base means copying a directory. Hold that in mind and the noise in this market separates from the signal quickly.
What to verify before money moves
Put every contender through these, top to bottom:
PHP and database requirements for MediaWiki-class software met exactly rather than approximately.
An edit-heavy workload where writes matter as much as reads.
Storage that keeps growing as revisions and attachments accumulate over the years.
Access control that copes with an open public wiki and private internal pages alike.
Read this before you compare a single price
Hosted wiki farms whose export function returns half the content, since a knowledge base is a ten-year asset and deserves somewhere it can leave from intact.
The pattern keeps working because the bill arrives late — at renewal, mid-migration, or exactly when growth takes off. The cure is plain arithmetic: total the cost over two or three years with every add-on you would genuinely need.
Where we would send you, honestly
Installing MediaWiki or DokuWiki on a standard plan: one click, your own domain, and a full export available for as long as you own it, with a private team wiki being the same setup plus an access layer.
In our range that means the Turbo plan — SSL, the move and mail already inside, renewal charged at the order rate, and an upgrade path so this decision never has to be made twice.
A copy is taken daily on every plan, and putting a file or a database back is one click in the panel rather than a support ticket.
Ten minutes of checking, well spent
A host worth your money survives scrutiny: check the renewal figure is published up front rather than tucked into a footnote, put a real question to support at an inconvenient hour and judge the reply, read the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a legitimate business leaves a paper trail.
Then let real use decide. Two working weeks inside the money-back window beats every review roundup ever written, and trying us costs the minute it takes to file a migration request.
No paid placements, no referral fees
Most 'best hosting' writing is ranking for hire. Our motive is simpler and stated plainly: we recommend the setup we would sell you either way — which leaves the rest of the page free to be useful.
A free SSL certificate comes with every plan and reissues itself before the old one lapses — the padlock is never yours to diarise.
- Checks you can run again yourself
- Renewal rates published, not footnoted
- A free migration makes the trial easy
- Refund terms with no small print
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
An upgrade path that is real
Shared, VPS and dedicated on one platform — today's choice never boxes tomorrow in.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The hardware other hosts keep behind premium tiers is simply the baseline build here.
Written out of real conversations
Every check here traces back to real exchanges with teams and communities building a shared body of documented knowledge, not to a features spreadsheet.
A company you can look up
UK Health Care Support Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host whose filing you can read before committing to anything.
A refund without an argument
If we are not the fit, leaving is one request rather than a negotiation — which is why we invite the test.
The essentials inside, not added on
SSL, the migration, backups and mail come with every plan rather than appearing as checkout extras.
Prices Side by Side
Our figures beside the big names
What the market typically charges to join and to renew, set beside ours, including the renewal figure most comparison charts leave out.
| Feature | Hosting & DomainsMost popular | Typical household-name host | Typical bargain host | Typical loss-leader deal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price / mo* | $2.42/mo | $4–$6 | $2–$4 | $1–$3 |
| Renewal price / mo | $2.42/mo | $10–$15 | $8–$12 | $4–$6 |
| Cheapest plan renews at its sign-up price | ||||
| SSL as standard | ||||
| Migration done for you | ||||
| NVMe drives on the cheapest tier | ||||
| Daily backups from the first tier | ||||
| Real humans on support, 24/7 |
*The figure in our column is the cheapest annual plan we sell, read live from the catalogue behind our pricing page, so it cannot drift out of date. The three columns beside it give the ranges hosts in each bracket tend to advertise: opening offers that usually want one to four years up front, then rise when the term ends. We stopped naming competitors and printing their prices, because a number we cannot check on the day you read it does not belong here. Set us against whichever host you are genuinely considering, and read the renewal row hardest of all.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Write the job down in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon lost in feature grids — write it before you look at a single host.
- 2
Compare on what year two costs
Introductory rates are the oldest device in this market; rank hosts by the second year instead and the order rearranges itself at once.
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Run a real trial inside the refund window
Sign up, have a real site moved in free, and work it hard for two weeks — the day-to-day feel is the actual product, and the window makes the test free.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- WordPress Toolkit, with the updates seen to for you
- 99.9% uptime as the target, watched around the clock
- No set-up charge at any point, and no joining fee
- Upgrades applied in place, with no migration when you change plan
- Money back within 30 days on hosting plans, 7 on reseller
- Your existing site brought across by our engineers, at no charge
- NVMe SSD storage on every tier, not only the dear ones
- LiteSpeed caching in the server itself rather than bolted on by plugin
- WordPress and 400+ further applications installed in one click
- Spam and virus screening on every mailbox by default
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
MediaWiki, or something lighter?
MediaWiki where you want public scale and an editing convention contributors already know. DokuWiki where a team wants simplicity, since there is no database and the backups are trivial. BookStack where you want something modern and hierarchical. All three install cleanly on our standard plans.
What keeps an internal wiki private?
Accounts and permissions inside the application do the work, and the cautious add a second layer at hosting level, whether a password-protected directory or an IP allowlist in front. Both of those controls are standard features here.
What is the uptime commitment, and what happens in a month that misses it?
99.9% — and if a month falls below that through a fault on our side, our terms entitle you to a pro-rated credit; ask and we apply it. Calling it a target rather than a contractual SLA is a deliberate choice. Hardware and network faults surface through platform monitoring, usually before the first customer notices.
Does hosting include mail?
Yes — every hosting plan includes mailboxes at your own name, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP plus spam filtering on from the start. There is standalone email hosting too, for a name whose website lives somewhere else.
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