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

Dear Monks,
I have a number of web applications written on Perl/CGI and have problems with shared hosting with hostmonster.
I am looking for inexpensive dedicated server hosting with Linux 64 bit OS which supports Perl and have some services including transferring domains, IP, email accounts, and other standard things.
Most of dedicated servers I found suggest 32 bit systems or very expensive. I need something within $100-150 a month max. Please share with me if you know something.

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Re: Dedicated Server question
by timos (Beadle) on Oct 24, 2010 at 11:14 UTC
    Which country are you in? I can recommend vollmar.net. What are your specific needs and why aren't you happy with your current hoster? Maybe if you ask a more specific question fellow monks can help you.
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      Lunarpages isnt to bad. They have some nice features and pretty good uptime. Never had a problem. Now have 2 accounts with them. Had them for 2 years. (cheep ones. I'm planning on setting up a site and just using address forwarding to my own machine. If you have the skills this is the best route as hosting starts at $4.99 and has pretty much all the same frills as dedicated. Dedicated buys you some extra frills which you may or may not need depending on the site you wanted to set up.) www.lunarpages.com
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        /*I'm planning on setting up a site and just using address forwarding to my own machine.*/
        I thought about it but then you have rely upon your home server stability including power shutdown, right?
        In this case why not to put the host completely at home?
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      I am in US. I am not happy with hostmonster because I have several sites which are WEB apps and each one takes 1.8+ GB RAM when running. They shut all my domains down several times when they watched resources distribution on the server I share with other people. Hostmonster does not have dedicated hosting.
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        Now i'm intrigued..as to what kind of web app could be using 1.8Gb RAM.
        the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H
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Re: Dedicated Server question
by perl-diddler (Chaplain) on Oct 24, 2010 at 23:49 UTC
    You might check out 'speakeasy.net'. They host domains and webpages, and I'm pretty sure, perl. -- they allow you to have shell access to the server you are hosting on, so I'm pretty sure you can setup just about anything. You'd just need to make sure they are using 64-bits, but I'd think most web hosting solutions use that these days.

    They were inexpensive -- like ~$30 for a basic domain & couple gigs of webspace. Their main business (I think) is being an ISP, but they also do the web hosting independently. I'm still using them for email since comcast uses MS-EXCHANGE, for their mail hosting and can't handle wild-card domain aliases, giving lame excuses for the fact that they really want to charge users *by the email account* for their email services. Typical MS-business model.

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Re: Dedicated Server question
by Plankton (Vicar) on Oct 24, 2010 at 23:02 UTC
    Isn't cloud computing suppose to be the future? I haven't used this myself Amazon seems be a leader in this area: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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