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@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@
<meta name="Description" content="A collection of big and small
sites enjoying mod_perl">
</head>
-<body bgcolor=#ffffff >
-<h3>Sites Running mod_perl</h3>
-
+<body>
<p>
This document contains information to give you an idea of where and
@@ -15,11 +13,10 @@
href="../maillist/list-docs-dev.html">us</a> know about it!
</p>
-<p>
-Of course, the sites described on this page are not the only sites
+<p> Of course, the sites described on this page are not the only sites
running mod_perl. Since mod_perl inserts its name and version into
-Apache's Server header, we are able to see others based on the <a
-href="stats/netcraft.html">Netcraft survey</a> results.
+Apache's <tt>Server</tt> header, we are able to see others based on
+the <a href="stats/netcraft.html">Netcraft survey</a> results.
</p>
<p>
@@ -27,193 +24,286 @@
back-end, therefore these aren't reported by Netcraft, since the
back-ends are usually cannot be accessed by the Netcraft scanner. For
the same reason, if you try to verify whether some of the services
-listed here are running mod_perl, you may not be ablet to, because the
+listed here are running mod_perl, you may not be able to, because the
back-end is not accessible. The listing is made of reports from people
who develop and maintain these services, so they know.
</p>
-<p>
-In addition to the sites listed in this document, you might also be
-interested in the <a
-href="http://perl.apache.org/embperl/Sites.pod.1.html";>sites running
-Embperl</a>, <a
-href="http://www.apache-asp.org/sites.html";><tt>Apache::ASP</tt></a>,
-<a href="http://www.axkit.org/livesites.xml";>AxKit</a> and <a
-href="http://www.masonhq.com/about/sites.html";>Mason</a>, which are
-all application toolkits/servers running under mod_perl.
-</p>
+<p> In addition to the sites listed in this document, you might also
+be interested in the sites running these application toolkits/servers
+using mod_perl: </p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a
+href="http://perl.apache.org/embperl/Sites.pod.1.html";>Embperl</a>
+</li>
+
+<li><a
+href="http://www.apache-asp.org/sites.html";>Apache::ASP</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.axkit.org/livesites.xml";>AxKit</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.masonhq.com/about/sites.html";>Mason</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://yass.slashcode.com/";>Slashcode</a>
+
+</ul>
<hr>
-<p>
-The first public site to run mod_perl: <a
-href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/04pause.html";>PAUSE</a>, the
-Perl Authors Upload SErver. This was a birthday present given to
-PAUSE by <b>Andreas König</b> on August 20, 1996.
-</p>
+
+<p> <b>Helping out Perl developers:</b> The first public site to run
+mod_perl was <a href="http://pause.perl.org/";>PAUSE</a>, the Perl
+Authors Upload SErver. This was a birthday present given to PAUSE by
+Andreas König on August 20, 1996. </p>
+
+<p> Many other sites helpful for Perl developers are using
+mod_perl. Search engines like <a
+href="http://search.cpan.org/";>Search.cpan.org</a> and <a
+href="http://kobesearch.cpan.org/";>Randy Kobes' CPAN search</a> use
+mod_perl. This is also the case for the popular <a
+href="http://use.perl.org/";>Use Perl</a> and <a
+href="http://www.perlmonks.org/";>Perl Monastery</a> web sites. The <a
+href="http://nntp.perl.org/";>Perl.org news server</a>'s web interface
+also uses mod_perl. </p>
+
+<p> <b>Movies/music: </b> Take a look at how Rob Hartill uses
+mod_perl to help you find out anything and everything there is to know
+about movies at the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/";>Internet Movie
+Database</a>. Besides using mod_perl to speed up the interactive
+database queries, mod_perl steps in during the first stage of a
+request, mapping URIs to cached query results if present and mapping
+based on language preference if the user has presented one. See <a
+href="success_stories/imdb.com.html">the success story</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p> Mark A. Downing tells us: I have been running an <a
+href="http://www.wm7d.net/";>Amateur Radio</a> callsign database (with
+800k records) on my web page for nearly two years, originally with
+WebSQL. But due to the lack of portability, I rewrote my scripts using
+sybperl. Now with mod_perl, I have successfully cut the time to
+complete a lookup from nearly 5 seconds to under 1 second (It takes
+longer to display the data than to do the query). This was
+accomplished by creating persistant database connections (to sybase)
+using mod_perl, and Apache is now able to establish those connections
+upon startup. No longer do I have to wait for my original scripts to
+connect and gather data. </p>
+
+<p> <a href="http://www.mojam.com/";>Mojam</a> is a new Internet music
+media company with the goal of attracting the largest audience of
+music listeners and players anywhere. Mojam is different that
+RollingStone or MTV because it focuses on helping new bands get their
+music out to the listeners by posting their show dates, music clips,
+and news releases. mojam.com is 100% Apache mod_perl running Mason to
+dynamically deliver all of it's pages. </p>
<p>
-Do you like movies? Then take a look at how <b>Rob Hartill</b> uses
mod_perl
-to help you find out anything and everything there is to know about movies
-at the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/";> Internet Movie Database </a>.
-Besides using mod_perl to speed up the interactive database queries,
-mod_perl steps in during the first stage of a request, mapping URIs to
-cached query results if present and mapping based on language preference if
-the user has presented one.
+<b>Technology news: </b><a href="http://home.wired.com/";>WIRED
+Digital</a> uses mod_perl (on linux and solaris) for several
+applications. It is used widely throughout <a
+href="http://www.hotwired.com/";>HotWired</a>, <a
+href="http://www.wired.com/news/";>Wired News</a>, <a
+href="http://www.webmonkey.com/";> Webmonkey </a> and <a
+href="http://www.suck.com/";>Suck.com </a> as a replacement for CGI
+scripts, and to control the HotWired member pages. Mod_perl also runs
+two servers that redirect requests for external pages from within
+WIRED sites. WIRED Digital regards mod_perl as an important and
+highly valuable addition to the server development toolset, and will
+continue to consider mod_perl as a strong candidate for solutions.
+
</p>
+<p> <a href="http://www.cmpnet.com/";>CMPNet</a>, a technology
+information network, uses mod_perl to generate 70% of its pages - over
+half a million hits a day. Our network includes <a
+href="http://www.techweb.com/";>TechWeb</a>, a technology news site.
+We switched to mod_perl because we couldn't stand writing and
+debugging NSAPI code for Netscape servers anymore. Needless to say the
+productivity improvement was immeasurable. Recently our company
+evaluated several top commercial web publishing platforms (Vignette's
+StoryServer, INSO's DynaBase) for a possible switchover. But in the
+end we stayed with our mod_perl architecture and agreed to standardize
+our company's internet operations on it! </p>
+
+<p> Rob Malda tells us that <a
+href="http://slashdot.org/";>Slashdot</a> - "News for Nerds", uses a
+combination of Perl and MySQL. Slashdot runs under mod_perl (using <a
+href="http://www.slashcode.org/";>SlashCode</a>) which keeps things
+nice and speedy. </p>
+
<p>
-<a href="http://www.webpersonals.com/";>Webpersonals</a> site uses
-<code>HTML::Embperl</code> over mod_perl to drive this nice match
-making site.
-</p>
+<b>Search engine: </b> <a href="http://www.sol.no/";>Scandinavia
+Online</a> uses mod_perl for the <a
+href="http://kvasir.sol.no/";>Kvasir search engine</a>. Kvasir is
+Norway's most popular Internet directory.
-<p>
-<a href="http://conceptionstore.com";>Conceptionstore.com</a>'s <a
-href="http://dev.cogenttechnology.com/epl/csovucalcin.html";>ovulation
-calendar</a> runs on HTML::Embperl over mod_perl.
</p>
+<p>mod_perl scripts which search the archives of <a
+href="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/cpan-search.html";>CPAN</a>, <a
+href="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/ctan-search.html";>CTAN</a>, <A
+href="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/linux-search.html";>Linux</a>,
+<a href="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/tetex.html";>teTeX</a> (a
+Unix TeX system), and MuPAD (a symbolic math program) are available at
+<a href="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/";>theory.uwinnipeg.ca</a>. These
+scripts query an mSQL database via various criteria, and employ the
+CPAN multiplexer code to choose a nearby mirror of the archive, if
+available and desired. </p>
+
<p>
-<a href="http://hn.org";>Hammernode Internet</a> a no-cost DNS provider
-serving thousands of zones, uses mod_perl to power both its dynamic
-web site, as well as the server end of its published API interface for
-client programs. We're very satisfied with mod_perl, and very
-thankful for it.
+
+<b>Picture database:</b> Gerald Richter and ECOS are using mod_perl
+(with Embperl) for a picture database. This contains pictures from
+touristic information Rheinland-Pfalz. It's intented as press
+information, to reduce the need of sending photographs around. You can
+view and search the picture via the <a
+href="http://bilder.ecos.de";>internet</a> or via a direct dial-in. The
+download is only available for vaild users and via direct
+dial-in. Also it's possible to maintain the database via the web and
+insert new pictures and descriptions, change or delete them. It is
+running Apache 1.3, mod_perl, <a
+href="http://perl.apache.org/embperl/";>Embperl</a>, DBI, DBD-Pg,
+PostgreSQL 6.21 on Linux 2.0.34.
</p>
+<p><a href="http://www.arttoday.com";>ArtToday</a> has a collection of
+over 600,000 keyworded images of all types. Customers find images
+using keyword and category searches. They serve about 250,000 raw
+hits daily.
+</p>
<p>
-<a href="http://www.sol.no/";>Scandinavia Online AS</a> uses mod_perl
-for the <a href="http://kvasir.sol.no/";>Kvasir search engine</a>.
-<b>Kvasir</b> is Norway's most popular Internet directory.
+Randy Ray uses Apache+mod_perl for his Software Configuration
+Management team's site within US WEST IT. About 1/3 of the data the
+server sends out is CGI-generated. After the conversion to mod_perl,
+some existing CGI scripts running unchanged via
+<tt>Apache::Registry</tt> showed measurable speed increases of as much
+as 723%. All of the SCM CGI scripts use the <tt>Image::Size</tt>
+library to add <tt>HEIGHT</tt> and <tt>WIDTH</tt> attributes to
+<tt><IMG></tt> tags. As <tt>Image::Size</tt> caches the
+dimensions of each files as it is first read, the persistent dataspace
+will virtually eliminate the step of computing image sizes.
+</p>
+<p>
+
+<b>City guide:</b> <a
+href="http://www.citysearch.com/";>CitySearch.com</a> provides online
+city guides for more than 100 cities worldwide, citysearch.com helps
+people find and plan what they want to do and then lets them take
+action, offering local transactions such as buying event tickets and
+making hotel and restaurant reservations online. Its traffic exceeds
+100,000,000 page views a month. Of course it's running under mod_perl.
+</p>
+
+<p> <b>Match-making site:</b> <a
+href="http://www.webpersonals.com/";>Webpersonals</a> uses
+<tt>HTML::Embperl</tt> running under mod_perl to drive this nice match
+making site.
</p>
<p>
-<b>Alvar Freude</b> uses mod_perl on <a
-href="http://www.a-blast.org/";>http://www.a-blast.org/</a>. It is a
+<b>Interactive text network:</b> Alvar Freude uses mod_perl on
+<a href="http://www.a-blast.org/";>Assoziations-Blaster</a>. It is a
"truly interactive text network", written completely in mod_perl. For
-a quick, non-technical overview have a look on <a
-href="http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/prixars/";>http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/prixars/</a>.
-(its in english on our old domain).<br> About one year ago, it runs on
-M$ IIS with ActivePerl and some PHP, in the meantime it is completely
-rewritten as Apache module, using MySQL as database. With this, I
-speed up the execution time from ~3 Seconds to ~10 milliseconds for
-each Blast-Page (OK, OK, the old machine had a very worst hardware,
-now we use only a semi-worst one: Pentium II 350, 320 MB RAM with
-Soft-RAID 0 under Linux).<br>
-
-The blast_engine includes the links into the texts in realtime, also
-the statistics are created in realtime:<br> <a
-href="http://www.a-blast.org/statistics/";>http://www.a-blast.org/statistics/</a>,
-<a
-href="http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/statistik";>http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/statistik/</a>
-(german, with much more traffic)
+a quick, non-technical overview take a look <a
+href="http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/prixars/";>here</a>.
-The blaster uses the speed benefit of keeping the complete keyword
-list in memory (more then 5 MB for the german version), for the
-non-linear real-time linker I use a ~50 line regexp .-) The HTML-Files
-are compressed on-the-fly with Compress::Zlib, so we keep bandwidth
-(and transmission time to the users) small.
</p>
+
<p>
+About one year ago, it was running on Microsoft IIS with ActivePerl
+and some PHP, in the meantime it has been completely rewritten as an
+Apache module, using MySQL as a database. With this, I speeded up the
+execution time from ~3 Seconds to ~10 milliseconds for each Blast-Page
+(OK, OK, the old machine had very bad hardware, now we use only
+semi-bad hardware: Pentium II 350, 320 MB RAM with Soft-RAID 0 under
+Linux).
+</p>
-<A HREF="http://www.citysearch.com/";>CitySearch.com</A> -- is
-providing online city guides for more than 100 cities worldwide,
-citysearch.com helps people find and plan what they want to do and
-then lets them take action, offering local transactions such as buying
-event tickets and making hotel and restaurant reservations online. Its
-traffic exceeds 100,000,000 page views a month. Of course it's running
-under mod_perl.
+<p>
+The blast_engine includes links to the texts in realtime, and the
+statistics are created in real time: <a
+href="http://www.a-blast.org/statistics/";>english version</a>, <a
+href="http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/statistik";>(german version,
+with much more traffic)</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p> The blaster uses the speed benefit of keeping the complete keyword
+list in memory (more then 5 MB for the german version), for the
+non-linear real-time linker I use a ~50 line regexp .-) The HTML files
+are compressed on-the-fly with <tt>Compress::Zlib</tt>, so we keep
+bandwidth (and transmission time to the users) small. </p>
-<A HREF="http://perlmonth.com";>PerlMonth</A> is a site completely driven
-by mod_perl/mySQL. Every article is stored in the database. When a user
-makes a request, a module we wrote parses the uri and dynamically creates
-the html page for the user. It's nothing out of the ordinary but it helps
-maintain the overall site with ease. PerlMonth does about 100K
-Pageviews/month w/o breaking a sweat. The site is written and
-maintaned by <B>Baiju Thakkar</B>.
+<p> <b>Ovulation calendar: </b> <a
+href="http://conceptionstore.com";>Conceptionstore.com</a>'s <a
+href="http://dev.cogenttechnology.com/epl/csovucalcin.html";>ovulation
+calendar</a> runs on <tt>HTML::Embperl</tt> under mod_perl.
</p>
-<p>
+<p>
-<A HREF="http://singlesheaven.com";>singlesheaven.com</A> is a match
-maker site, that is written completely in Perl and is being driven by
-Apache/mod_perl and mysql. Each request comprises a big number of
-database queries to make the site very interactive, and it's still
-very fast under mod_perl. The service runs under
-<CODE>Apache::Registry</CODE> module. The site is written and
-maintained by <B>Stas Bekman</B>.
+<b>DNS provider:</b> <a href="http://hn.org";>Hammernode Internet</a>,
+a no-cost DNS provider serving thousands of zones, uses mod_perl to
+power both its dynamic web site, as well as the server end of its
+published API interface for client programs. "We're very satisfied
+with mod_perl, and very thankful for it."
</p>
-<p>
-<b>Gerald Richter</b> and <b>ECOS</b> are using mod_perl (with
-Embperl) for a picture database. This contains
-pictures from touristic information Rheinland-Pfalz. It's intented as press
-information, to reduce the need of sending photographs around. You can view
-and search the picture via the <a
-href="http://bilder.ecos.de";>internet</a> or via a
-direct dial-in. The download is only available for vaild users and via
-direct dial-in. Also it's possible to maintain the database via the web and
-insert new picture and descriptions, change or delete them.
-Software running is Apache 1.3, mod_perl,
-<a href="http://perl.apache.org/embperl/";>Embperl</a>, DBI, DBD-Pg, Postgress
-6.21 on an Linux 2.0.34.
-</p>
<p>
-<b>Jayme Cox</b> explains: At <b>Broderbund Software</b>, we have a
-site running mod_perl to keep
-persistant database connections open between our Apache web farm and
-our
-Oracle database server. We have a <a href="http://www.warlords3.com";>
-game site </a> that checks our Oracle DB for a customers email address
-and lets them download additional game maps if they have registered
-the software. Using persistant DB connections increased the perceived
-response time by over
-200%. The exact URL is
-<a href="http://www.warlords3.com/guild/maps";>
-http://www.warlords3.com/guild/maps</a>.
+<b>Game site:</b> Jayme Cox explains that at Broderbund Software, we
+have a site running mod_perl to keep persistant database connections
+open between our Apache web farm and our Oracle database server. We
+have a <a href="http://www.warlords3.com";>game site</a> that checks
+our Oracle DB for a customers email address and lets them download
+additional game maps if they have registered the software. Using
+persistant DB connections increased the perceived response time by
+over 200%.
</p>
+
<p>
-<b>Rick Mangi</b> and
-<a href="http://www.tgix.com/";>Thaumaturgix, Inc.</a>
-use mod_perl to provide a method for gathering stats on web
-usage including a logging proxy server module for their customers.
+<b>Statistics: </b> Rick Mangi and <a
+href="http://www.tgix.com/";>Thaumaturgix, Inc.</a> use mod_perl to
+provide a method for gathering stats on web usage including a logging
+proxy server module for their customers.
</p>
+
<p>
-<b>Jason Bodnar</b> at <b>Cox Interactive Media</b>, explains: <br>
-Right now we're using mod_perl for authentication on two sites (soon
-to be a third):
-<a href="http://www.Austin360.com";>http://www.Austin360.com</a>
-and
-<a href="http://www.GoBig12.com";>http://www.GoBig12.com</a>.
-We started out using Netscape servers and dbms for authentication. We
-were writing all our demographic info to flat files but that got out
-of hand so we moved the demo info to Informix. This was okay but it
-meant keeping two seperate databases (dbms or Berkely DB with
-username/password and Informix with demographics). Not fun. So when we
-switched to Apache (for performance reasons) I was able to consolidate
-all the info and do authentication out of Informix thanks to mod_perl,
-Apache::DBI, Apache::AuthenDBI and DBD::Informix. It makes life much
-simpler! We're also eventually going to be running our Eats Database
-(list over 1400 restaurants in Austin) and our movie database with
-mod_perl. I'm sure we'll find alot more uses for it in the future.
+<b>Authentication: </b> Jason Bodnar at Cox Interactive Media,
+explains: Right now we're using mod_perl for authentication on two
+sites (soon to be a third): <a
+href="http://www.Austin360.com";>Austin360</a> and <a
+href="http://www.GoBig12.com";>GoBig12</a>. We started out using
+Netscape servers and dbms for authentication. We were writing all our
+demographic info to flat files but that got out of hand so we moved
+the demo info to Informix. This was okay but it meant keeping two
+seperate databases (dbms or Berkely DB with username/password and
+Informix with demographics). Not fun. So when we switched to Apache
+(for performance reasons) I was able to consolidate all the info and
+do authentication out of Informix thanks to mod_perl,
+<tt>Apache::DBI</tt>, <tt>Apache::AuthenDBI</tt> and
+<tt>DBD::Informix</tt>. It makes life much simpler! We're also
+eventually going to be running our Eats Database (list over 1400
+restaurants in Austin) and our movie database with mod_perl. I'm sure
+we'll find alot more uses for it in the future.
</p>
+
<p>
-<A HREF="http://www.magirus.com";>Magirus Datentechnik GmbH</A> is a
+<b>Link between 5 different database systems: </b> <a
+href="http://www.magirus.com";>Magirus Datentechnik GmbH</a> is a
German company employing around 200 people. Magirus has offices
located in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and needs a powerful
Intranet System for it's internal information flows. We're using
@@ -229,168 +319,36 @@
response time seems (for the end-user) to be immediate (depending of
the client's speed). This is only working on a private-network and so
we can't give you an address to try it. For more information, contact
-<A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>.
+<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
+Philippe Froidevaux</a>.
</p>
-<p>
-
-<b>Tony Bowden</b> developed <a href="http://www.musicdatabase.com/";>The
-Music Database</a> which uses mod_perl and MySQL to allow browsing and
-searching a cross-referenced guide to over 80,000 CDs and one million
-songs. (not operational at this stage).
-</p>
-<p>
-
-<b>Randy Ray</b> uses Apache+mod_perl for his Software Configuration
Management
-team's site within <b>U S WEST IT</b>. About 1/3 of the data the server
sends out is
-CGI-generated. After the conversion to mod_perl, some existing CGI scripts
-running unchanged via Apache::Registry showed measurable speed increases of
-as much as 723%. All of the SCM CGI scripts use the Image::Size library to
-add HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes to <IMG> tags. As Image::Size caches
the
-dimensions of each files as it is first read, the persistent dataspace will
-virtually eliminate the step of computing image sizes.
+<p> Information about the collection persists in an Oracle 7 database,
+and keyword searches happen via a custom application written using a
+Verity search engine. All of this is glued together using Perl. Our
+hardware consists of a single Sun Ultra with lots of storage (about
+150GB) and an unnecessarily large monitor.
</p>
-<p>
-
-<a href="http://www.arttoday.com";>ArtToday</a> has a collection of
-over 600,000 keyworded images of all types. Customers find images
-using keyword and category searches. They serve about 250,000 raw
-hits daily.
-
-Information about the collection persists in an Oracle 7 database,
-and keyword searches happen via a custom application written using
-a Verity search engine. All of this is glued together using Perl.
-Our hardware consists of a single Sun Ultra with lots of storage
-(about 150GB) and an unnecessarily large monitor.
-
-We switched to Apache/mod_perl after becoming frustrated with
+<p> We switched to Apache/mod_perl after becoming frustrated with the
Netscape Commerce Server performance. Although I don't have hard
numbers, I would estimate a factor of 2-5 times CGI performance.
Using mod_perl and Apache we've turned our "extremely loaded" server
into a "comfortably loaded" server, even allowing us room for some
software development. Mod_perl saved us from having to buy another
-Ultra!
+Ultra!
</p>
-<p>
-mod_perl scripts which search the archives of
-<A HREF="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/cpan-search.html";>CPAN</A>,
-<A HREF="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/ctan-search.html";>CTAN</A>,
-<A HREF="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/linux-search.html";>Linux</A>,
-<A HREF="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/tetex.html";>teTeX</A>
-(a Unix TeX system), and
-MuPAD (a symbolic math program) are available at
-<A HREF="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/";>theory.uwinnipeg.ca</A>.
-These scripts query an mSQL database via various criteria, and employ
-the CPAN multiplexer code to choose a nearby mirror of the archive,
-if available and desired.
+<p> <b>Replacing CGI: </b> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/";>PBS
+Online</a> is using mod_perl to improve the speed of its heavily
+loaded servers, having replaced CGI for games, navigation control, and
+commerce.
</p>
-<p>
-<A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/";>PBS Online</A> is using mod_perl to
-improve the speed of its heavily loaded servers, having replaced CGI for
-games, navigation control, and commerce.
-</p>
-<p>
-
-<a href='http://www.oreilly.com/'>O'Reilly and Associates</a>
-uses mod_perl to control access to their
-<a href='http://online-books.oreilly.com/books/'>online books site</a>.
-Every request for a document runs through a mod_perl script, which checks
-username and password, and may eventually provide dynamic data.
-</p>
-<p>
-
-<a href="http://home.wired.com/";>WIRED Digital</a>
-uses mod_perl (on linux and solaris) for several
-applications. On HotBot mod_perl is used for the <a
-href="http://members.hotbot.com/";>HotBot mail and
-HotBot homepages</a> application, interfacing with a third-party
-application by WhoWhere. It is also used widely throughout
-<a href="http://www.hotwired.com/";>HotWired</a>,
-<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/";>Wired News</a>,
-<a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/";> Webmonkey </a>
-and <a href="http://www.suck.com/";>Suck.com </a> as a replacement for
-CGI scripts,
-and to control the HotWired member pages. Mod_perl also runs two
-servers that redirect requests for external pages from within WIRED
-sites. WIRED Digital regards mod_perl as an important and highly
-valuable addition to the server development toolset, and will continue
-to consider mod_perl as a strong candidate for solutions.
-
-</p>
-<p>
-
-<a href="http://www.medimatch.com/";>MediMatch</a> uses Apache and
-Stronghold on Solaris, and makes use of mod_perl almost exclusively
-for its medical employment services database. Originally coded to use
-standard CGI, when we switched over to mod_perl to maintain persistent
-connections to a Sybase database, and for data caching in various
-fashions, we saw a speedup ranging from 25-500% (varying on the type
-and depth of the search queries). We also use mod_perl to facilitate
-the caching of CGI-parsed HTML pages, which reduced the speed of
-requests to approximately that of ordinary static HTML.
-</p>
-<p>
-
-CMPnet <a href="http://www.cmpnet.com/";>www.cmpnet.com</a>, a
-technology information network, uses
-mod_perl to generate 70% of its pages - over half a million hits a day.
-Our network includes TechWeb <a
-href="http://www.techweb.com/";>www.techweb.com</a>, a technology
-news site, and FileMine
-<a href="http://www.filemine.com/";>www.filemine.com</a>, a shareware
-site.
-We switched to mod_perl because we couldn't stand writing and
-debugging NSAPI code for Netscape servers anymore. Needless to say the
-productivity improvement was immeasurable. Recently our company
-evaluated several top commercial web publishing platforms (Vignette's
-StoryServer, INSO's DynaBase) for a possible switchover. But in the
-end we stayed with our mod_perl architecture and agreed to standardize
-our company's internet operations on it!
-</p>
-<p>
-
-Mark A. Downing tells us:
-I have been running an <a href="http://www.wm7d.net/";>Amateur
-Radio</a> callsign database (with 800k records)
-on my web page for nearly two years, originally with WebSQL. But due to the
-lack of portability, I rewrote my scripts using sybperl. Now with mod_perl,
-I have successfully cut the time to complete a lookup from nearly 5 seconds
-to under 1 second (It takes longer to display the data than to do the
-query). This was accomplished by creating persistant database connections
-(to sybase) using mod_perl, and Apache is now able to establish those
-connections upon startup. No longer do I have to wait for my original
-scripts to connect and gather data.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-
-Rob Malda tells us that <a
-href="http://slashdot.org/";>Slashdot.org</a> - "News for Nerds", is a
-combination of Perl and MySQL. Slashdot runs under mod_perl which
-keeps things nice and speedy.
-
-</p>
-
-<p>
-
-<a href="http://www.mojam.com/";>Mojam</a> is a new Internet music
-media company with the goal of attracting the largest audience of
-music listeners and players anywhere. Mojam is different that
-RollingStone or MTV because it focuses on helping new bands get their
-music out to the listeners by posting their show dates, music clips,
-and news releases. mojam.com is 100% Apache mod_perl running Mason to
-dynamically deliver all of it's pages.
-
-</p>
-
-<p>
+<hr>
+<p>Is <b>your</b> site running mod_perl? <a
+href="../maillist/list-docs-dev.html">Let us know!</a>. </p>
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