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If you have any additions or changes for the list, please send them to
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If you wish to share you module(s) the Perl way, by putting them on CPAN,
send a request to me or
modules@perl.org to get set up with a
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running mod_perl. Since mod_perl has inserted it's name and version
into Apache's Server header, we are able to see others based on the
netcraft survey results.
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The first public site to run mod_perl and the hand that feeds CPAN
with it, PAUSE, the Perl Authors Upload SErver. This was a birthday present given
to PAUSE by Andreas König on August 20, 1996.
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Andreas and Kulturbox went on to create an exciting site with
mod_perl that gives you a
dynamic tour of Berlin, Germany.
BerlinINFO. The images you see here are generated on the fly,
using mod_perl allows the GD image objects to be cached in memory
for an extra performance boost.
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Do you like movies? Then take a look at how Rob Hartill uses mod_perl
to help you find out anything and everything there is to know about movies
at the Internet Movie Database .
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mod_perl steps in during the first stage of a request, mapping URIs to
cached query results if present and mapping based on language preference if
the user has presented one.
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Webpersonals site uses
HTML::Embperl
over mod_perl to drive this nice match
making site.
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Hammernode Internet a no-cost DNS provider
serving thousands of zones, uses mod_perl to power both its dynamic
web site, as well as the server end of its published API interface for
client programs. We're very satisfied with mod_perl, and very
thankful for it.
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The Internet's largest on-line toy store, eToys.com, uses mod_perl extensively.
We use an object-oriented approach built on standard CPAN modules such
as DBI, BerkeleyDB, and Template Toolkit. eToys ranked third in
overall traffic among e-commerce sites during the 1999 Christmas rush,
right behind Amazon and eBay.
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Patrick Kane uses mod_perl at
The Electronic Newsstand to maintain
limited and persistent connections to their Sybase servers where users
can search and browse through thousands of virtual magazines. Patrick
also uses mod_perl's Authentication hook for seamlessly migrating users
from their old registration system to a new one.
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Scandinavia Online AS uses
mod_perl for the Kvasir search
engine. Kvasir is Norway's most popular Internet directory.
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Alvar Freude uses mod_perl on http://www.a-blast.org/. It is a
"truly interactive text network", written completely in mod_perl. For
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non-linear real-time linker I use a ~50 line regexp .-) The HTML-Files
are compressed on-the-fly with Compress::Zlib, so we keep bandwidth
(and transmission time to the users) small.
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CitySearch.com -- is
providing online city guides for more than 100 cities worldwide,
citysearch.com helps people find and plan what they want to do and
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maintain the overall site with ease. PerlMonth does about 100K
Pageviews/month w/o breaking a sweat. The site is written and
maintaned by Baiju Thakkar.
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singlesheaven.com is a match
maker site, that is written completely in Perl and is being driven by
Apache/mod_perl and mysql. Each request comprises a big number of
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very fast under mod_perl. The service runs under
Apache::Registry
module. The site is written and
maintained by Stas Bekman.
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filepile.com is an archive of
over 1.2 million freeware/shareware files. Michael Mittelstadt explains:
"After moving to mod_perl, everything is wonderful, everything is
fast, and the computer (dual P6, linux) is no longer bending under
the stress. mod_perl saved us from having to buy a second webserver."
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Gerald Richter and ECOS are using mod_perl (with
Embperl) for a picture database. This contains
pictures from touristic information Rheinland-Pfalz. It's intented as press
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Software running is Apache 1.3, mod_perl,
Embperl, DBI, DBD-Pg, Postgress
6.21 on an Linux 2.0.34.
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Jayme Cox explains: At Broderbund Software, we have a
site running mod_perl to keep
persistant database connections open between our Apache web farm and
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200%. The exact URL is
http://www.warlords3.com/guild/maps.
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Rick Mangi and
Thaumaturgix, Inc.
use mod_perl to provide a method for gathering stats on web
usage including a logging proxy server module for their customers.
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Jason Bodnar at Cox Interactive Media, explains:
Right now we're using mod_perl for authentication on two sites (soon
to be a third):
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(list over 1400 restaurants in Austin) and our movie database with
mod_perl. I'm sure we'll find alot more uses for it in the future.
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Magirus Datentechnik GmbH
is a German company of about 200 peoples, (de)located in
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and needs a powerful
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can't give you an address to try it. For more information,
contact
Philippe.Froidevaux@magirus.com.
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Tony Bowden developed The
Music Database which uses mod_perl and MySQL to allow browsing and
searching a cross-referenced guide to over 80,000 CDs and one million
songs. (not operational at this stage).
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Randy Ray uses Apache+mod_perl for his Software Configuration Management
team's site within U S WEST IT. About 1/3 of the data the server sends out is
CGI-generated. After the conversion to mod_perl, some existing CGI scripts
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add HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes to <IMG> tags. As Image::Size caches the
dimensions of each files as it is first read, the persistent dataspace will
virtually eliminate the step of computing image sizes.
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ArtToday has a collection of
over 600,000 keyworded images of all types. Customers find images
using keyword and category searches. They serve about 250,000 raw
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into a "comfortably loaded" server, even allowing us room for some
software development. Mod_perl saved us from having to buy another
Ultra!
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mod_perl scripts which search the archives of
CPAN,
CTAN,
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These scripts query an mSQL database via various criteria, and employ
the CPAN multiplexer code to choose a nearby mirror of the archive,
if available and desired.
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PBS Online is using mod_perl to
improve the speed of its heavily loaded servers, having replaced CGI for
games, navigation control, and commerce.
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O'Reilly and Associates
uses mod_perl to control access to their
online books site.
Every request for a document runs through a mod_perl script, which checks
username and password, and may eventually provide dynamic data.
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WIRED Digital
uses mod_perl (on linux and solaris) for several
applications. On HotBot mod_perl is used for the
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MediMatch uses Apache and
Stronghold on Solaris, and makes use of mod_perl almost exclusively
for its medical employment services database. Originally coded to use
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and depth of the search queries). We also use mod_perl to facilitate
the caching of CGI-parsed HTML pages, which reduced the speed of
requests to approximately that of ordinary static HTML.
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CMPnet www.cmpnet.com, a
technology information network, uses
mod_perl to generate 70% of its pages - over half a million hits a day.
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StoryServer, INSO's DynaBase) for a possible switchover. But in the
end we stayed with our mod_perl architecture and agreed to standardize
our company's internet operations on it!
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Mark A. Downing tells us:
I have been running an Amateur
Radio callsign database (with 800k records)
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(to sybase) using mod_perl, and Apache is now able to establish those
connections upon startup. No longer do I have to wait for my original
scripts to connect and gather data.
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Rob Malda tells that Slashdot.org -
news for nerd, is a combination of Perl and MySQL. Slashdot runs under
mod_perl which keeps things nice and speedy.
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Mojam is a new Internet music
media company with the goal of attracting the largest audience of
music listeners and players anywhere. Mojam is different that
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music out to the listeners by posting thier show dates, music clips,
and news releases. mojam.com is 100% Apache mod_perl running Mason to
dynamically deliver all of it's pages.
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