I wonder what kind of response you expect from Perlmonks. Without knowing what kind of services your provider gives you, and what kind of contract you have, how could anyone suggest to switch (or not switch) providers?

Until recently, part of tasks was taking care of a herd of webservers. Were customers allowed to install software and run it outside the installed webserver? Some of them. Others certainly not. Would I install a specific version of perl (or something else) for them? Again, for some I would. For others, only after they upgraded their contract.

See, if your website is one of fifty all running from the same Apache and all you pay for is static webpages, PHP, mod_perl and a small database, you're not getting a different version of Perl. But if you're paying for your own (hardware) domain on one of the big boxes, things can be arranged.

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In reply to Re: Should I ask my hoster to upgrade perl or try to do it myself? by Perl Mouse
in thread Can/should I run an upgraded version of perl locally, on a shared web server where I don't have root? by tphyahoo

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