[Catalyst] FastCGI on Shared Hosting

J. Shirley jshirley at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 14:21:48 GMT 2010


On Jul 16, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Sir Robert Burbridge wrote:

> 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.
> 

Linode also was a YAPC sponsor.

They're an awesome provider.




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