web applications using Perl

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

Hopefully this is the right place to post this question. I have what I think is a good idea for a web application which I think people will pay for if I make it available to the public. I'm going to write the app in Perl btw. Once I've written the app how do I go about making it available to the public? I've read all about Dancer, Planck and other services which will certainly help but I can't find any information about a)how to actually find a host which has Dancer and other Perl related web app functionality available and b)how then get the app up and running from there. And I want tofind a reliable host as well. Aslo, there are plenty of tutorials out there about how to use Dancer, Planck, etc. But I'm not going to offer this app on my own server. Anybody have any experience doing this that could get me started? Thanks.

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Re: web applications using Perl by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 15, 2012 at 12:38 UTC
but I can't find any information about a)how to actually find a host which has Dancer and other Perl related web app functionality available It's unlikely you'll find any Dancer-specific hosting. Most hosting services just support Plack, but that's fine since Dancer is based on Plack. How do you find them? Well, with your search engine of choice. I searched for cloud hosting perl plack, and the first hit already pointed to three different hosters. I also dimly recall that Heroku supports Perl, might be worth investigating too. All those cloud hosting services publish instrunctions on how to deploy your application to them. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re: web applications using Perl by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 15, 2012 at 11:41 UTC
You could use amazon EC2 to host your application: Deploying a Perl Dancer application on Amazon EC2. Other solutions include using a host who will install these things for you, or allow you to install using local::lib. See also Dancer::Deployment. Update: s/including/include/	[reply]
Re: web applications using Perl by scorpio17 (Canon) on Feb 15, 2012 at 13:53 UTC
You could try clicking the add banner at the top of this window... pair.com hosts this site, and I've used them myself with much success.	[reply]
Re^2: web applications using Perl by tangent (Parson) on Feb 15, 2012 at 19:38 UTC
I take it you are referring to pair networks? I recently discovered they have Perl 5.14.1 installed on their shared servers, however they haven't upgraded the XS modules for their list of installed modules. They said they would push my request for this on to a queue, but nothing yet. Perhaps other customers could help push them along a bit.	[reply]