Editing Sundering:Wikia Migration (section)

== Reason for the Move ==
The wiki originally started in late 2007 on a small shared hosting solution and slowly grew until around August of 2008 when the 100th patch [[Ancient Powers]] came. With that patch the wiki's popularity really took off and in late 2008 the wiki was shut down by our host due to the strain it was putting on the server.

A few weeks later the wiki moved to a new host that provided us with essentially a dedicated server and lots of bandwidth. However the wiki continued growing, both in readership and content. Hundreds of AC players have helped build the wiki to over 15,000 articles and 25,000 images. In late August we learned that we had outgrown this host as well and it was time to find yet a new host.

Our options were discussed here on our [[Forum#Wiki Relocation|Forum]] and on [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=43380 Turbine's boards]. Then the decision was made to move to Wikia.com, a professional wiki hosting service that provides free hosting in exchange for advertisements. This decision was not taken lightly, and the primary concern was to ensure the long term availability of the wiki so that contributors can have confidence that the material they submit will not disappear.

No one has been compensated or paid to make this move. Ad revenue goes to Wikia and Wikia pays for the servers/bandwidth/techs to maintain/upgrade things. We expect this to be our final move as Wikia is able to allocate resources as needed so we won't be outgrowing our host again.