in reply to Perl Hosting Query

If you want to do modernish Perl web development in CGI space, then I'd go with CGI::Application. "Modern" frameworks typically require you to use some sort of proxying to a backend service/port.

Shared hosting plans will make it difficult for you to have the control of ports and proxying that you seek.

You can also look at maintaining your own server in the cloud, e.g., Linode.

Finally, if you want to take a look at hosts that will definitely have Perl on their system one way or another, you can look at https://partnernoc.cpanel.net/. Keep in mind the majority of these places provide shared hosting, but there shouldn't be too many restrictions in place to you setting up your own Perls using local::lib and perlbrew other than disk space restrictions in that environment.

(disclosure, I work for cPanel)

Update:

FWIW, in the spirit of dog food eating I have my own WHM server that I use for application development rather than for shared hosting. It's a pretty nice way to go if you tend to want to various personal projects going at the same time rather than use it strictly for providing shared hosting accounts. You can do that, too; but having full control over the server is nice. Some applications are CGI/CGI::Application, some are Dancer; some are UI, some are RESTful services. From someone else, what you get just depends on how much control you can wrestle from your shared hosting provider. If you are your own shared hosting provider, then the sky is the limit. WHM gives me about 99.9% of what I need for this purpose, including DB management.

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Re^2: Perl Hosting Query
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 09, 2014 at 14:05 UTC

    All PSGI-compatible "frameworks" work as CGI when run via Plack::Handler::CGI. Of course you lose the fancy stuff like Server Sent Events or WebSockets.

Re^2: Perl Hosting Query
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 09, 2014 at 17:41 UTC

    CGI::Application is perfectly cromulent but I think it’s not good advice at this time. It’s a step up from CGI but anyone who was doing best practices with CGI, dispatch tables and request cycle oriented code, was already doing most of what CGI::App does. There are many frameworks now that are superior and easier after the learning curve is done. Including but not limited to Catalyst, Mojolicious, Amon2, and (not my pick but a lot of devs like it) Dancer.

    Disclosure, I like cPanel. :P

Re^2: Perl Hosting Query
by perlron (Pilgrim) on Sep 05, 2014 at 14:54 UTC
    this is intense. thanks