On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 06:43 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Bandwidth can be[..]
metered, but I haven't seen hosters who meter processor time. Instead they
make vague statements about removing inappropriately-greedy scripts.
Does anyone know how hosting companies really approach this issue?[..]
I think there is really more than one issue going on here.
a. there are alternative perl cgi scripts that were built to run under perl4, and early perl5, that have security defects that really need to be addressed - and that this is really the 'issue' that the hosting company is trying to address in the process, and phrasing it badly.
b. there are also badly written perl scripts that are just badly written and should just be shot - and that this is the real issue that is badly being presented - including but not limited to, the usual problems with not managing the 'fatalToBrowser' problems....
c. sometimes the 'real issue' is that they want to switch to an 'all microsoft shop' and hence view perl as some strictly unixie kinda thing - inspite of the reality.
d. sometimes this is tied up in the evolutionary problem that some folks want to use perl5.6.1 and that would of course require the hosting server to upgrade from the vendor supplied 5.5.3 version.... or REALLY SCARY the problem of working out when to make the cut over to 5.8.0 because of the problems that will arise with binary compatability - and so the issue here is how to work out where on the version of perl one should be using as the default baseline...
All of which can be driven by 'marketting prejudice' or 'geek prejudice' at the hosting site about what the real costs of maintaining x,y,z coding environments can/should be quantified as.
So I would not start calculating pi any time soon, but you may want to talk with your current hosting service about how they REALLY look at all of this.
ciao drieux
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ikky sub-text - you may also want to shift to OSX, and bring up the apache server, and get your own IP Address Space, plonk a firewall in, get the Fibre Optic Terminal, and become your own web hosting site - that way supporting the revitalization of the economy through more consumer confidence in high technology .... You know that the FCC has finally deregulated the telecom industry...
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