Difficult to suggest anything: where are you based; what is the bandwith and volume you need; are you willing to pay for it; what version of Perl do you need; cloud based, co-located or shared server; ...

“Can you suggest me a good Web Server that can support Perl CGI. My current web hosting give very minimum support for the perl cgi.”

It's actually harder to find a web host that — does not — have CGI and Perl installed. If you are looking for a host to provide technical support for your scripts, you may be better off looking for the configuration you want (eg. Operating system, supported databases etc.) and taking the time to learn CGI.

This will help you get started: CGI 101 and, of course you can stop by here with any specific questions.

Good luck.

It's $11 per month, plus additional bandwidth for a 256MB RAM, 10 GB hdd linux server. I was really impressed with how easy and quickly I was able to create an account, spin up a server, and get my own IP address... it was a matter of minutes and I was up and running.

Now, if by "supports Perl CGI" you mean: you want to install your own modules and versions, then this is a great solution because you are the server owner, you are root, and you do whatever you want with it.

But if by "supports Perl CGI" you mean you want to call someone and ask for help, you're probably not going to find anything like that without paying a WHOLE LOT of money to someone like Redhat for enterprise support.

Depends how much you want to pay. I use Linode.

Put this in your cgi-bin directory as "time.cgi". Change the permissions so that anybody can read it or execute it.
chmod +rx cgi-bin/time.cgi

Then you just have to tell folks the URL, maybe:
http:your_machine/~yourName/time.cgi
The user clicks on that link and the program runs.
In this case it just sends an html page with the current time.

Try it!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
my $timestamp = localtime;

print $q->header ("text/html"),
      $q->start_html ( -title => "Current Time"),
      $q->h2 ("Current Time"),
      $q->hr,
      $q->p( "This system figures current time as: ",
             $q->b($timestamp)
            ),
      $q->end_html;
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I am based in India and the current web server don't allow to modify the apache server setting, I need to use Mod Perl for my e-eCommerce site. I inquired many web server but no one seems to allow any right to make the server setting to modify I believe there would be many monks who worked on Large sites on Perl with Mod Perl and would like to know which would be good one to start. I would like to use a server that use perl 5.8 + version perfer 5.10

If you want full control over your servers, i.e. root access, your best bet other than running your own box, is a virtual private server. Google for linux virtual private server or see linux virtual private servers for example.

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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

Have you tried http://www.bullten.com

Put this in your cgi-bin directory as "time.cgi".
this may under a directory like: public_html

Change the permissions so that anybody can read it or execute it.
chmod a+rx cgi-bin/time.cgi

Then you just have to tell folks the URL, maybe:
http:your_machine/~yourName/time.cgi
The user clicks on that link and the program runs.
In this case it just sends an html page with the current time.

Try it!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
my $timestamp = localtime;

print $q->header ("text/html"),
      $q->start_html ( -title => "Current Time"),
      $q->h2 ("Current Time"),
      $q->hr,
      $q->p( "This system figures current time as: ",
             $q->b($timestamp)
            ),
      $q->end_html;
[download]

But under a normal ~Unix system where you are allowed to have a cgi-bin directory, this is "hello world".

Get this working and we go from there.
With performance issues and blah,de,blah,de,blah.