Re^7: Perlbrew on shared hosting

this could be against their terms of use

Even if they haven't thought to include it explicitly it will fall under their catch all "security risk" clauses.

I really don't think that the benefits of getting Perlbrew running would be worth the efforts and risks of trying. Instead my efforts are better directed to learning enough to be confident to make the move to VPS - probably two VPS to keep production and test environments sufficiently separated - currently I just do this with subdomains.

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Re^8: Perlbrew on shared hosting by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 05, 2020 at 12:52 UTC
In that case one VPS should be enough, you could even fire up a VM on a local machine, matching your VPS.	[reply]
Re^9: Perlbrew on shared hosting by Bod (Parson) on Dec 05, 2020 at 13:12 UTC
Currently I have a production and test environment for each website. Each has a structurally identical database and, for the most part, identical code. Only a `config` file is different and this holds things like the database credentials along with flags to switch off things like notification emails in the test site. Some also have a dev environment which shares the test database. With the current shared hosting, I am unlikely to be able to do anything in the the test environment that will break the production environment without copying code into it. With a VPS my concern is that I will have access to, and will need to administer, the parts of the system that control both environments and therefore the likelihood of me breaking the production environment increases. So my thought was to have a separate VPS for each environment and use well thought out scripts to copy between them when the time comes. Perhaps that is overkill... Coding is not my full time profession. If there is a problem I need to sort it out as I don't have an IT team but I also have a business to run.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^10: Perlbrew on shared hosting by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 05, 2020 at 13:38 UTC
The most important thing is what you're comfortable with in running your businesses, don't take my suggestion as criticism, just an alternative you may want to explore as time allows. As your skills develop no doubt you'll consider alternatives.	[reply]