[Catalyst] Dreamhost for Catalyst

[Gert Burger]

Jim Spath wrote:
> I would stay away from Dreamhost personally.  Regardless of what they 
> happen to support, I've had numerous performance + uptime issues with 
> them.
>
> You might look into slicehost.  It's a little more expensive, but you 
> essentially get your own machine (via Xen VPS), allowing you install 
> and run whatever you want on it.
>
> - Jim
>
> Toby Corkindale wrote:
>> Toby Corkindale wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> was chatting to someone about hosting a low-traffic Catalyst site, 
>>> and the subject of Dreamhost came up - they (apparently) offer 
>>> particularly cheap virtual servers (about £5/month), and judging by 
>>> their website, you receive a shell and can compile your own apps, 
>>> including it says, CGI apps.
>>>
>>> I was wondering how appropriate it would be for running a 
>>> database-backed Catalyst app though. There is support for persistent 
>>> MySQL databases (i don't know about PostgreSQL), but I don't know 
>>> about mod_perl or fastcgi apps.
>>
>> Edit: No support for mod_perl, nor PostgreSQL.
>> However, there IS support for FastCGI.
>
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I use vpsland.com, so far uptime has not been a problem at all and I 
have not yet noticed any performance issues(Its been 8 months).