[Catalyst] Catalyst on shared hosting

[Peter Edwards]

A Virtual Private Server is a good way to go if you have some Linux sysadmin
knowledge, particularly since Xen VPS technology became available.
I use vpsland.com running Centos 4.1 (free Redhat) and have been very happy.
They are US based: http://vpsland.com/hosting.php
Another I considered was Bytemark, who are UK based:
http://www.bytemark.co.uk/hosting/prices/index.html

Put "vps linux xen" into Google for more choices.

Regards, Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org
[mailto:catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org] On Behalf Of Perrin Harkins
Sent: 21 December 2005 17:07
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst on shared hosting

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:13 +0000, Carl Franks wrote:
> Each script running under fastcgi has it's own process, so you don't
> have the same security issues as mod_perl. You can also have different
> programs loading different versions of the same perl module, again a
> problem under mod_perl.

You would typically handle this by running separate instances of
mod_perl for the different versions.  It's more work than FastCGI
though.

There isn't much reason to use hosts that only offer virtual server
setups anymore, now that ISPs offer virtual machines with root access
for such low prices.  People who don't have dedicated hardware should
consider using one of those and running mod_perl or FastCGI rather than
trying to make CGI or the pure-perl server fast enough.

- Perrin