ikiwiki-hosting is a spin-off from ikiwiki. I wrote it to manage many ikiwiki instances for Branchable, and made it free software out of principle.

While Branchable has not reached the point of providing much income, it's still running after 6 years. Ikiwiki-hosting makes it pretty easy to maintain it, and I host all of my websites there.

A couple of other people have also found ikiwiki-hosting useful, which is not only nice, but led to some big improvements to it. Mostly though, releasing the software behind the business as free software caused us to avoid shortcuts and build things well.

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