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
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