Have you considered approaching Pair Networks
No ... but not a silly idea.
OTOH, it could be deemed that they are already doing enough for perl.
I did approach my ISP (Optus - who would probably be the second largest Telco in this member of the 3rd World Economy). All they could tell me was:
Optus do not provide any upgrades to the personal web space. If you wa
+nt to have a depositary for files, you could register your own domain
+ and host files on the web space provided. Alternatively, you could l
+ook at using free services such as live.com (25Gb), Dropbox (2Gb) and
+ others
"the web space provided" == 10Mb
Far out !!
Cheers,
Rob | [reply]
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Replying to my own post.
I think the key to trying to get a hosting provider to donate hardware and bandwith to your project is selling to them the idea that they are not donating to a charity, instead you are giving them an opportunity of cheap advertising to their target market.
I dare say hosting companies get approached all the time by charities looking for free hosting, and if it is an animal hospital or suchlike, then the hosting company don't have much to gain other than their logo in the corner of a website which their target market don't visit.
You project is different. People visiting your PPM repo are by definition perl developers, and a substantial fraction will be working on websites, and will need hosting. You need to convince the hosting company that your project will give them lots of sales leads.
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I also commend your correct spelling of "tightarse"
Thank you !! That was, of course, my major concern. Woulder been nice if you'd also acknowledged that I had (correctly) referred to the inhabitants of Scotland as "Scots" rather than "Scotch people" ... it's a subtlety that's often completely overlooked "down under".
I am, of course, being deliberately (and ridiculously) flippant :-)
one thing that would be nice (and may already exist) is an up-to-date list of PPM repositories
Quite by chance, I stumbled upon this a few days back (from ActivePerl's lib/PPM/Repositories.pm) which may well be the best such list going around:
our %Repositories = (
bioperl => {
location => 'http://bioperl.org/DIST/',
Notes => 'BioPerl - Regular Releases',
PerlV => [ 5.8, '5.10' ],
},
'bioperl-rc' => {
location => 'http://bioperl.org/DIST/RC/',
Notes => 'BioPerl - Releases Candidates',
PerlV => [ 5.8, '5.10' ],
},
bribes => {
location => 'http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/',
Notes => 'Bribes de Perl',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8, '5.10', 5.12 ],
},
gtk2 => {
location => 'http://www.lostmind.de/gtk2-perl/ppm/',
Notes => 'gtk2-perl bindings (check also \'voltar\' reposit
+ory)',
},
'gtk2-old' => {
location => 'http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/',
Notes => 'Old "official" Gtk2 repository',
},
log4perl => {
location => 'http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm',
Notes => 'log4perl (pure perl)',
PerlV => [ ],
PerlO => ['perl'],
},
roth => {
location => 'http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/',
Notes => 'Dave Roth\'s modules',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
},
'tcool-ppm3' => {
location => 'http://ppm.tcool.org/server/ppmserver.cgi?urn:PPM
+Server',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Notes => 'Kenichi Ishigaki\'s repository (PPM3))',
},
tcool => {
location => 'http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/',
Notes => 'Kenichi Ishigaki\'s repository (PPM4)',
},
trouchelle58 => {
location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm/',
Notes => 'Trouchelle: 5.8',
},
trouchelle510 => {
location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm10/',
Notes => 'Trouchelle: 5.10',
PerlV => [ '5.10' ],
},
trouchelle512 => {
location => 'http://trouchelle.com/ppm12/',
Notes => 'Trouchelle: 5.12',
PerlV => [ 5.12 ],
},
'uwinnipeg56-ppm3' => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?ur
+n:/PPMServer',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.6 (PPM3)',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
},
uwinnipeg56 => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.6',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
},
'uwinnipeg58-ppm3' => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?ur
+n:/PPMServer58',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.8 (PPM3)',
},
uwinnipeg58 => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.8 (PPM4)',
},
uwinnipeg510 => {
location => 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.10',
PerlV => [ '5.10' ],
},
uwinnipeg512 => {
location => 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/12xx/',
Notes => 'University of Winnipeg: 5.12',
PerlV => [ 5.12 ],
},
voltar => {
location => 'http://voltar.org/active/5.8/',
Notes => 'Paul Miller\'s Games::RolePlay::MapGen and Gtk2 r
+epository',
},
wxperl => {
location => 'http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository',
Notes => 'wxPerl modules',
PerlV => [ 5.8, '5.10', 5.12 ],
},
);
Cheers,
Rob | [reply]
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I host my things at Bluehost.com. They have very quick and helpful tech support. Through cPanel you can install Perl modules in your account, and you get SSH access also. They run Perl 5.8.8, I think.
They are, like grengeeks, on the inexpensive side of the spectrum. No mod_perl, though (that I know of).
I am a happy customer, as you can tell.
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HostRocket, http://www.hostrocket.com
Their free hosting may or may not provide enough space or bandwidth, but if not, they offer virtual hosting (shared servers) at very inexpensive rates (USD 5.99/month, unlimited bandwidth and disk)... and on up.
Hmmpf. As part of preview, just took a look at their current frontpage... from which mention of freebie accounts has disappeared. Maybe no more, or maybe just havta' dig deeper. | [reply] |
Disk space should come in at less than 1 Gb (though might grow over time, as most things do). Bandwidth shouldn't be much of a consideration - the modules that I've got in mind are my own Math::* modules, PDL, Net-SSH2, Gtk2-GladeXML (and its dependencies) along with a few others. I don't think any of them are in high demand.
I probably should be so cautious as to require something more secure than FTP .... but I'm not :-)
Anyway, thanks for all of the replies. I was curious about greengeeks so I've given them a go ... they were pretty efficient at processing my credit card payment, but that's about as far as it's got. If it goes pear-shaped I at least now have (courtesy of the replies) some reliable alternatives to fall back on.
Thanks guys.
Cheers,
Rob
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