On Wednesday 11 May 2011 05:57:50 Jeff Pang wrote: > 2011/5/11 <sono...@fannullone.us>: > > Can someone recommend a good ISP that keeps up with Perl? Right > > now we're with A2 Hosting and they're still stuck at version 5.8.8, and > > they refuse to upgrade because, and I quote, > > Using VPS you can install any version of Perl. > Curently I am using two VPS, one is Linode, another is namecheap's. > Or try Amoson AMS for a year free.
You can also install a different perl somewhere under ~/ using perlbrew or whatever: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-perlbrew/ Of course, making this perl behave well with mod_perl/etc. is a massive undertaking. That put aside, maintaining a Virtual Private Server (VPS), which is for-all- practical-purposes a server, is considerably harder than maintaining an ssh account, and requires one to be a good system administrator if you don't want to get cracked. I was told that most good programmers do not make good system administrators (despite the fact that all clueful system administrators need to know how to code and write scripts and other stuff), because it's a very different mentality. So I would suggest you find a better ssh-hosting, unless you are sure you can actively maintain a proper VPS. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ Yesterday I asked one of my students if she knew what an encyclopedia is, and she said: "Is it something like Wikipedia?". -- http://twitter.com/alisonclement/status/8421314259 Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
