OT: Web Hosting Service - CGI/DBI/MySQL

data67 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: OT: Web Hosting Service - CGI/DBI/MySQL by bradcathey (Prior) on Aug 16, 2005 at 22:46 UTC
Yup, it is an OT, but, for the record, we've recently moved about a dozen clients to the host of the Monastery and are pretty happy. Very Perlish. —Brad "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot	[reply]
Re: OT: Web Hosting Service - CGI/DBI/MySQL by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 16, 2005 at 21:48 UTC
This question probably belongs in the OT bucket, but you may want to see the node Re: Moving hosts: questions about web content which, in response to a similar inquiry, recommended Web Hosting Talk ... (i haven't personally used that site, just remembered the mention of it from a few days ago)	[reply]
Re: OT: Web Hosting Service - CGI/DBI/MySQL by davidj (Priest) on Aug 16, 2005 at 23:36 UTC
Depending on the needs of the site (is it a professional site? Minimum uptime, etc.) why not give a shot at hosting it yourself? If you have a cable or dsl internet connection (where you can be connected at all times), you can register a domain name and use one of the many dynamic dns services (I personally use dyndns) for name resolution. The rest would be a matter of installing and configuring the necessary software (apache, perl, mysql, etc). It's not as difficult as it may sound. However, the maintenance and security of the site is another matter :) Also, I guarantee you will learn a lot in the process. davidj	[reply]
Re: OT: Web Hosting Service - CGI/DBI/MySQL by metaperl (Curate) on Aug 17, 2005 at 11:05 UTC
I host metaperl.com and livingcosmos.org at hcoop.net, which is cooperative hosting on a professional server for about 5.00 month... I have lots of disk space usage too.	[reply]
Re: OT: Web Hosting Service - CGI/DBI/MySQL by xorl (Deacon) on Aug 17, 2005 at 18:15 UTC
What exactly was wrong with WestHost.com? Anyway just like there are tons of webhosts, there are tons of web host review sites. http://www.webhostmagazine.com/ http://www.hostreview.com/ http://www.10-cheapwebhosting.com/ http://www.web-hosting-top.com/web-hosting/directory That's just a few I found on google. I have three different webhosts I use for most of my stuff, but they're all focused on PHP or (heaven forbid) ASP. One of them does support Perl, but I'm sure I'll get down voted if I post the referal link. If you're intersted, PM me and I'll send you the referal link. Finally, I'd suggest you at least check out the folks who advertise on perlmonks -- pair.com	[reply]
Re: OT: Web Hosting Service - CGI/DBI/MySQL by silent11 (Vicar) on Aug 19, 2005 at 19:43 UTC
I have used pair.com for years and I've been VERY satisfied with them. They aren't the cheapest game in town, but paying a few extra bucks a month is worth the comfort of knowing that my sites are being handled by professionals. My only complaint has been that they have no plan to offer/support Rails, which I've been quite interested in for the past few months. Dreamhost & Textdrive seem like nice hosts too, which offer PHP, Perl and MySQL (and RoR). -silent11 Spread Firefox	[reply]