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You get what you pay for. Along those lines, 99.9% uptime implies 3½ days of down time and “guaranteed uptime” just means they may have to refund you $4 for the downtime throughout the summer and holidays.

As far as good budget hosts go, Dreamhost’s Perl support is fair. You need a Linode slice (as 1nickt suggests) or a Lightsail server or something similar if you expect to run persistent apps of any girth. It requires a big step up in skillset though.

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Re^2: Perl hosting is hard to find
by hippo (Bishop) on Dec 21, 2019 at 10:51 UTC
    You get what you pay for.

    Generally true, although I'm aware of some hosters who charge a lot and are no better. Always try to talk to other customers and ex-customers for their experiences.

    99.9% uptime implies 3½ days of down time

    If you mean annually, then 99.9% uptime is only about 8 hours of downtime.

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      Agree that value isn’t always pegged to high cost but low cost in this realm is always tied to lower quality. Quite right about the three nines too. I shifted a decimal. :| 3½ days is two nines.

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Re^2: Perl hosting is hard to find
by Fletch (Bishop) on Dec 20, 2019 at 19:30 UTC

    Seconding Dreamhost in that I've not been not satisfied with them (then again I don't run much there any more, and when I did it was mostly tiny rails backends).

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