For pretty obvious reasons most hosting companies will not install mod_perl on shared machines. But their are one or two specialist places that will, for example baremetal.com offers users their own Apache process with mod_perl for $30US per month. Other than that, you will be looking for a dedicated server.

Being familiar with mod_perl means nothing. I run my own work under mod_perl, but I know nothing (well pretty much nothing!) about it. Oh I might not be getting the best performance, or the greatest flexibility, but hey, I have time to learn in the future. Don't be frightened of mod_perl.

Well written Perl/CGI will work well, but eventually it will bog down. I have one app of around 25,000 lines written in plain old Perl/CGI. With 2,500 users and handling about 300,000 emails per day it bogs down. With about 15 hours work eliminating some globals and testing it under mod_perl it has a whole new lease on life. It used to take two servers to keep up, now it is on one mod_perl machine and has capacity to spare.

Good luck!

jdtoronto