On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, > > "we unfortunately cannot perform a global upgrade on perl as it may cause > severe problems with other users and applications across the board at this > time." > > There has to be a company out there that doesn't treat Perl like a > second class citizen. >
this doesn't give your grievance any less credence. however, iirc, the last stable version of debian and rhel/cent were using 5.8. both distros have sense moved forward. however, depending on the size of the hosting company, they might still be testing their next build. (trust me, you prefer this vs your stuff going down whenever a mouse sneezes) that said, the above comment is bull shit any way you look at it. it's either an exec, sales person, or someone that doesn't know wtf they're talking about. this is perl after all, not php (or even python). amazon aws is $0.10 an hour (idling) last time i checked - that's $70/mo. and rackspace is worse (in price). while these services might scale, i can easily find 1u of space for $100. i can also justify a business connection for around the same price. these are obviously levels less in redundancy and levels more in effort and insurability. however, the old adage: cost, speed, reliability - pick two, comes to mind. these days, though, i'd also add 'control' to that mix :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
