if you want some limits for the usage of your wiki...
If you have not endless space or CPU you might want some limits.
This would also be nice if you want to sell many wikis and want at least some control as how much one wiki is used.
The limits could be:
- maximum users
- maximum pages (except system pages)
- maximum new pages per time (week, day)
- maximum simultaneous users
- maximum disk space used
- maximum cpu usage per wiki
This is a feature for wiki farms.
Discussion
Limits are dangerours because they can be used to break a wiki.
How is that? Isn't this a question of implementation? And what do you mean with "break"? Ok, I also think problematic is what a page is. Because what if people add 10 pages and delete them. They are still there. And what about anonymous ads... I think many things have to thought through but one should not dump the idea. I also think that having no limits can break a server or a wiki (if Wikis take the whole space of a virtual server for example) -- ThiloPfennig 2005-12-21 16:49:30
Interesting (and already implemented in some other wiki engines) are limits for edits/new pages per user and time.
For limiting the cpu usage use Apache with throttleing.