The Dreamhost hosting plan comes with a bunch of free and easy to configure software. Last time, we talked about Zen Cart, the shopping cart software. Let us no point our attention to the MediaWiki one-click installation.

Mediawiki is without a doubt the best known amongst the wiki software applications. Why? Because it is used for the most famous wiki on the interwebs: Wikipedia.

Take a look at Wikipedia and you’ll know what kind of functionality your Dreamhost Mediawiki Installation will provide you with: a Wiki is a website where a visitor can edit any page or to create new pages through the browser. Editing and adding links in a Wiki is very easy and intuitive.

Some of Mediawiki features: skins, printable versions of articles; automatic resizing of images; extended recent changes; edit toolbar; talk pages; message notification; different rights for anonymous users, signed in users, sysops, bureaucrats and developers; full text search…

Why on earth would you want your own Wiki? Well, you could set up a Wiki for your website and let your visitors add content, ie document the episodes of a television show or build an encyclopedia on your local sports team. But while wiki’s are typically used for collaborative webites and community sites, you could very well use Mediawiki for your own private projects. Set up a wiki as your personal online notebook and never loose a quote, a link or a picture.

With Dream host it will take you about five minutes to have a Wiki up and running. Fill out a few fields, click the “install it for me now”-button and Dreamhost will install a brand new wiki for you. Be sure to use one of our Dreamhost coupon codes when sign up with DH and you’ll pay even less.

Dreamhost’s reliable hosting deal comes a bundle of free and easy to install top web software. One of those free one-click software installations is shopping cart software Zen Cart.

Zen Cart is an improved version of the well known OsCommerce shopping cart software. Zen Cart distinguishes itself from OsCommerce by a better template and themes system and by more built-in features. Zen Cart is suitable for every kind of web shop you want to start. The newsletter manager, the modules for vouchers and gift certificates and the possibility to offer multiple shipping and payment options will make your business thrive. This professional online store management system can even be used for selling downloads (games, pdf’s, mp3’s and other files).

If you want to learn more about Zen Cart and its features, check out the Zen Cart website. But remember, you can skip the part about installation. Because with Dreamhost, the installation of Zen Cart only requires one click.

Thinking of starting a web shop? You will need a reliable web host. Sign up with Dreamhost, use one of our promo codes and you’re all set for as little as $5.78 a month!