[Catalyst] Dreamhost for Catalyst

[Danny Warren]

I was responding to the original poster and not anything you said, but I 
can see how it could seem that way (since I used the term "virtual host" 
incorrectly).

I was referring more to hosting providers that use apache virtual hosts 
to serve your content.  I should have said "shared hosting", and my 
point was that if your shared hosting provider is decent (which is hard 
to find, just by the nature of the business model) then you can get 
pretty close to a decent catalyst environment without mod_perl.

I actually think something like linode is a really cool idea and I am 
poking at their site right now.  I haven't really looked around at other 
hosts (or anything other than vanilla shared hosting) in years since my 
host keeps me pretty happy.  I think I would enjoy something like 
linode, since I am really anal about how I like things configured and 
would much prefer to deploy my own bits.  I think I am just lucky in 
that my shared hosting provider gets me pretty close to where I would 
want things anyhow.

 From your experience, how does the performance compare?  Does getting 
to run your own apache instance + mod_perl / persistent db connections 
outweigh any performance hit from running inside a VM?  Or is it just 
leaps and bounds above shared hosting all around?

Danny


Thomas Hartman wrote:
> I think we are talking past each other, or maybe I used the wrong word.
> 
> What I meant was, what you get with linode *appears* to be the same as
> what you would get if you had your own server: root access, do
> whatever you want.
> 
> But it's cheaper, and the performance isn't as good.
> 
> "I think most virtual hosts wouldn't support persistent connections or
> mod_perl, just because it goes against the basic way that virtual hosts
> are set up (needing access to the apache config itself, unique instance,
> etc)."