GuildWiki:Welcome PvXwiki

As most of you know, PvXwiki hosted Guild Wars builds ever since our build section got wiped. There were plans to move PvXwiki to Wikia: Tuesday 17 February, Potential move to Wikia. (GuildWiki moved to Wikia one and a half years ago). As of today, 19th February, PvXwiki's databases are locked and the move seems to be ongoing.

Was keeping PvXwiki independent a realistic option?
Here's what it might have cost: Renting1 two managed Athlon 64/6000 servers with 6 GB RAM and a 750 GB disk each and a combined traffic allowance of 2 Terabyte/month costs 198€/month, that comes to around 250$ USD. (Internal traffic between the servers is free.) The wiki needs to earn around $10 per day to keep going. That sounds doable.

It also needs people to care for the mediawiki software; the provider runs the apache/php/mySQL database etc. stuff (that's why it's "managed"). They promise better than 99% uptime.

1 German GuildWiki has been using this example hosting provider for years.

Advantages
PvXwiki stays the same. No other skin, no other usernames, no ads the community doesn't want. Definitely no-commercial, like the license says. (Yes, we get Warcraft ads. Lots of them.)