Hosting is expensive and that expense scales with popularity, or with attacks.

Anything exposed to the world is a security nightmare requiring constant vigilance and updates.

If our corporate overlords and corrupt governments don't like your content they can and will collude to destroy your entire life.

mod_perl hosting does not exist because the perl community failed to meet the challenge posed by PHP decades ago, so you'll have to do everything yourself, which is hard.

you'll have to do everything yourself, which is hard.

I was meaning for the OP to do it himself in my original reply. It may be hard but it's no harder than his proposed suggestion and (for me anyway) should be much easier. YMMV.

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