[Catalyst] Dreamhost for Catalyst

[Toby Corkindale]

I thought I'd follow this up a bit later with my results.

I bought an account at ASmallOrange, and had a Catalyst FastCGI setup 
running rapidly.
There was a minor hiccup, in that for some reason /usr/bin/ld wasn't 
user executable, but a support email asking about it was answered in 
about 5 minutes, and they fixed it.

The system I'm on seems very responsive, and seems to have, on average, 
only 2-3 users on it at once. Compiling all the Perl modules flew by on 
what appears to be a 2.1 GHz Core2Duo Linux system.

Pity about the lack of Postgres, but I can confirm I've got MySQL 5 and 
SQLite 3.

Toby

Danny Warren wrote:
> 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