agreed.

... which takes us back to the problems of using mod_perl in a shared hosting environment - any script can affect the environment of other users, and globals can persist from request to request. I don't know if similar problems exist in PHP.

What would be an ideal starter environment is to be able to:

• load Perl at startup
• provide completely separate perl environments for different users
• load all the required modules at startup
• serve each request with a clean "just started" stack, so that previous requests have no impact.

I know very little about the internals, but what about:

• starting a single Perl interpreter ("root process")
• forking a separate process for each customer / website - this acts as the "parent process" for each website
• load required modules into this new "parent process"
• for each request, fork a Perl interpreter from the "parent process"

I may be barking up the wrong tree, and I don't know how heavy these forks are (whether they would be a real gain on using straight CGI), but it may be worth a shot.

Clint

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