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Let's talk about the different hosting options that are available for the advanced wiki user. Again, you need to evaluate your needs. Do you want a free service or a service that maybe doesn't have any ads and requires a small fee per month? Do you want a hosted service or a non-hosted service that perhaps you host yourself? Do you have a preference for a different wiki engine? And this really gets into the advanced users preference for a particular programming language, a particular database, ads or no. And a lot of times the advanced user is going to say no to an ad-based wiki hosting environment. GUI or customizable? Again, an advanced user might prefer to be able to get his hands dirty and really customize the different features that are available on his wiki. Finally, do you want the URL of the WikiFarm or your own? And these are entirely preferences that you need to choose and that will help you evaluate the different services that you need. So advanced users have a lot of options and I'm just going to talk about a few of them here. Many WikiFarms offer paid sites that boast features above and beyond their free hosting plans, such as PBWiki. If you check out some different wikis that we have talked about in other sections such as WikiSpaces, they are going to offer a paid service that will allow you to take the ads off or that allow you to have extra space, so on and so forth. So you might find one of those that you prefer. Enterprise wikis are out there that are really meant for the small to large business, like Confluence and SocialText and these allow you to really integrate them into your business environment and provide a lot of advanced features that the home user just wouldn't need. Also, there are dedicated wiki hosts like SiteGround that make a business out of just hosting on the web wikis for you. Now, this is different than a WikiFarm in that they aren't giving you the GUI interface. You're not actually updating the wiki on their site as much as you're just hosting it. They're holding it for you, so to speak. Or you could do it yourself. You could set up your own web server, point it out to the Internet and install the wiki software yourself and a lot of advanced users are going to look to that options as their option of choice. I'm just going to change to my browser here and we're going to look at some of these different options and I've brought up the page for business for PBWiki just to show you some of the features that are available for more advanced users, things that home users probably don't need as much, such as a lot of storage space. PBWiki offers ten gigabytes of storage space for their business users. Enterprise-grade encryption; now this is going to be really important in a business environment, but not so much in a home environment. Full data backups, which are really important, again, if you're hosting business documents. You want those backed up and single sign on. This will allow you to integrate it into your current infrastructure to provide increased security. Now, on to Confluence. This is a really slick enterprise wikis that's out there for business users who want a really professional-looking product. And they have some really comprehensive demos and documentation on their website if you are interested in a commercial wiki. Next is SocialText, which is another enterprise wiki. Again, very slick looking. You'll see some of the customers including Columbia University, very prestigious, using the SocialText engine. So these are out there for people that have greater needs than just your beginner home user. Finally, I was going to show you SiteGround, which is a dedicated wiki host for, as of right now, 5.95 a month you can host your wiki with them and they will allow you to host different wiki engines. On the left-hand side, you'll see here they have MediaWiki, TikiWiki and DocuWiki hosting available. Now, these are just a few options that the advanced user has. There are so, so many more. Some guidelines for the advanced user: know your needs. Do you think that the wiki is going to expand and grow exponentially? We hope so. If that's the case, then you need to keep that in mind, that you're going to need some room to expand and grow. Research, research, research. This is crucial. If you're an advanced user and you want particular programming languages, particular databases, you need to use a site such as WikiMatrix.org and their ability to compare and contrast different engines or just go out and do a lot of research on their websites. Look at the forums and see what people are saying about different engines. Check out the things that you need for the advanced user and not so much for the beginner user. Read, experiment and be bold. Again, do a lot of reading, do a lot of experimenting if they have free options available for you to try and be bold. Don't be afraid to get out there and check out these things and really get involved in the wiki revolution.