On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 20:43 +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote: > How common is it for shared hosting packages to come with FastCGI or > modperl support?
Not common. I would suggest that people who have to use shared hosting should consider using SpeedyCGI. It's more adaptable to those environments. But see the note at the end about FastCGI. > In my experience using Perl on the web, running under plain CGI is the > norm, and thus very relevant. No company that I've ever worked with has wanted to use CGI, given how cheap it is to rent your own (possibly virtual) machine at a hosting company and the amount of performance improvement. Anyone who is concerned about performance should just fork over the extra $30 a month. It's a lot cheaper than having your programmers spend time on performance tuning. The newer "dedicated virtual" hosting plans with root access make it very cheap to run mod_perl. > Isn't it the case that even FastCGI has some persistent memory usage? > > I wonder if FastCGI hosters are doing anything special to deal with the > extra resource burden, besides putting more memory into their machines. Interestingly, Ruby on Rails has caused a new market in FastCGI hosting. I doubt there was much of anything before, but now you can find it for practically nothing. Try searching this page for FastCGI: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts - Perrin --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
