[Catalyst] FastCGI on Shared Hosting

Sir Robert Burbridge rburbrid at cisco.com
Fri Jul 16 14:16:28 GMT 2010


On 07/16/2010 08:15 AM, André Walker wrote:
>
>> You could also 'cheat', by getting a free pingdom account (which will 
>> monitor your apps uptime, and wake it up for this monitoring every 60 
>> seconds).. Depending how aggressively your ISP is killing fcgi 
>> processes this could be enough to keep it hot all the time..
> I cheated! It worked :)
> Haha, thanks a lot. It's not a pretty solution, haha, but it solved my 
> problem.
>
>> Other than that, I'd suggest that slicehosts or some other small VM 
>> provider are very cheap these days ;)
> Yeah, I'm seriously considering that. Would really make things easier 
> to deploy.
>
> Cheers,
> André
>
I switched from HostGator (shared) to Linode (vps) for that very 
reason.  Excellent decision; I highly recommend it.

-Sir





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