[Catalyst] Dreamhost for Catalyst

[Danny Warren]

I have native postgres 7.5.x and fcgi on the server I sit on.  The only 
thing I have compiled in my account space are the catalyst libs + a few 
plugins + plugin/catalyst deps (which they would also install for you to 
the base system if you asked, but I didn't mind doing that myself right 
now).

Oh wait, I just searched their forums and found this:

http://forums.asmallorange.com/index.php?showtopic=8200

Lame, it looks like postgres support is no longer "official", hence why 
you didn't see it on the site.  I knew that only a handful of people 
(out of hundreds of users) cared about postgres, so from that 
perspective I can understand not supporting it (especially when they 
care about keeping things patched and current all the time).  Apparently 
postgres just doesn't play well with cpanel, which I have experienced 
myself.  It looks like the reason I have postgres is just because I am 
an older customer and they won't take it *away*, they just aren't 
actively supporting it.

I do know the fastcgi libs are everywhere, since every box has a ruby on 
rails setup going using fcgi (they have an apachehandler for .fcgi -> 
fastcgi by default).  My server just lacked the fcgi perl module which 
myapp_fastcgi.pl needs to run.

I might e-mail them to see if they would be willing to maybe have at 
least one of their servers config'd with postgres, for the handful of us 
who use it going forward.

(FYI, I am hosted on the "lamda" server, if you want to make sure you 
get all the same stuff I have, not sure if they are putting new 
customers on that box)

Danny

Toby Corkindale wrote:
> Danny Warren wrote:
>> Here is the part where you get flooded with host recommendations from 
>> everyone!
>>
>> I use these guys: http://asmallorange.com/
> [snip]
>> I was able to compile everything else I needed for catalyst in my home 
>> dir, and had a fastcgi + catalyst setup going without any problems. 
>> They also seemed interested in making Catalyst available by default, 
>> which would be really cool.  I haven't circled back and talked to them 
>> about that yet (I was just trying to make sure that it worked in the 
>> first place before I totally dove in to catalyst).
>>
>> Here is the test page, running under fcgi and connecting to postgres:
> 
> That is good! I couldn't see anything the the smallorange sales pages 
> about them supporting postgres or fastcgi, but if they support it, 
> that's excellent, and what I'm after.
> Are you running PostgreSQL in your own account space, or are you 
> connecting to some shared database on their servers?
> 
> asmallorange definately appear to be running much newer versions of 
> software than dreamhost, which is nice.
> 
> Cheers
> Toby
> 
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