Portal:Cloud VPS

Cloud VPS (Virtual Private Server) provides cloud computing infrastructure, powered by Wikimedia movement. Cloud VPS makes it easier for developers to test improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure (including MediaWiki), do research and analyze data, and host projects that are not viable on Toolforge.

Create and manage Cloud VPS projects

Administer your own virtual servers (instances) and Cloud VPS projects.
Go to the Cloud VPS user docs

Administer Cloud VPS

Manage the Cloud VPS infrastructure.
Go to the Cloud VPS admin docs

Communication and support

Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by the Wikimedia movement volunteers. Please reach out with questions and join the conversation:

Discuss and receive general support

• Chat in real time in the IRC channel #wikimedia-cloud ^{Telegram group}
• Discuss via email after you have subscribed to the mailing list

Stay aware of critical changes and plans

• Subscribe to the cloud@ list)
• Read the News wiki page

Track work tasks and report bugs

Use a subproject of the Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services infrastructure itself

Read stories and WMCS blog posts

Read the Cloud Services Blog (for the broader Wikimedia movement, see the Wikimedia Technical Blog)