Sponsoring and sponsors

OpenCage operates a highly-available, enterprise level geocoding API based on open data sources like OpenStreetMap. Need geocoding? Visit OpenCage's comprehensive geocoding buyer's guide. OpenCage uses Perl extensively, and is proud to have sponsored MetaCPAN for many years.

Fastly provides us CDN services, so we are faster around the world.

Hosting is generously sponsored by Bytemark Hosting.

Bytemark Hosting is the UK's "geek hosting outfit of choice" because its programmer & network-engineer team have built it that way since 2002, with their own tools, software and technical expertise. They understand web applications and network infrastructure equally, and host names such as Bostik, dopplr.com and Britain's largest mystery shopping company, Retail Eyes. Their hosting starts at only £15 per month and runs to multi-site managed setups for customers with the fussiest demands of reliability and failover.

Hosting is also generously sponsored by Liquid Web Inc.

Liquid Web Inc. is a privately held, managed web hosting company founded in 1997. The company owns and operates three data center facilities located in Lansing, Michigan in addition to having a software development office and a data center in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. In 2014, the company also launched development space in Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as extending hosting operations to Europe (attaining space in Amsterdam, NL). It has established itself as a leader in the professional web hosting market with an unwavering dedication to providing the best hosting products customer service available. With a client-base that spans beyond 120 countries, the company has assembled a world class Heroic Support staff and a proactive Sonar Server Monitoring team, professionally educated and easily accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The rapidly expanding web host has been recognized amongst INC Magazine's 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for eight consecutive years, beginning in 2007.

Elastic is the company behind the Elasticsearch open source search and analytics engine, along with Logstash, Kibana (which lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data), and Beats (lightweight agents for sending data to Logstash or Elasticsearch).

Datadog supports MetaCPAN by providing monitoring and log analysis.

Fastmail is a commercial hosted email service founded in 1999, which has established a reputation for technical leadership in the hosted email space, with a focus on security, privacy, and reliability. It is run by Fastmail Pty Ltd, an Australian company based in Melbourne. From their early days they've been users and supporters of Perl, and several of their developers are CPAN authors: BRONG, ROBN, RJBS, WOLFSAGE and ROBM (one of the founders). In late 2015 they acquired pobox.com, another hosted mail company and longtime user and supporter of Perl.

mySociety is a not for profit group pioneering the use of online technologies to empower citizens to take their first steps towards greater civic participation. We work across four interlinked practice areas: Transparency, Democracy, Climate and Community, each underpinned by research, sector building through TICTeC and appropriate commercial work via SocietyWorks.

GitHub supports MetaCPAN by donating free private repositories.

Deriv is one of the world’s largest online brokers. Deriv offers CFDs and other derivatives on forex, indices, cryptocurrencies, commodities, and synthetics to millions of registered users across the globe.

More than that, Deriv heavily relies on CPAN (and bring back a lot to it in return!) with its backend code being written in modern Perl and some great names being part of the company.

Route4Me is a powerful route planning and optimization software designed to streamline last-mile delivery and service operations. It automates and integrates crucial workflows for route planners, dispatchers, drivers, and managers, enhancing efficiency and customer satisfaction. With features like real-time GPS tracking, mobile apps, and seamless integration with other platforms, Route4Me helps businesses save time, reduce fuel costs, and improve overall operational efficiency. The software supports dynamic routing and recurring route planning, making it adaptable for various industries and business needs.

Hosting is also generously sponsored by Control.My.ID and YellowBot

Control.My.ID is a privacy platform bringing transparency and control to consumers and providing regulatory compliance to enterprises and YellowBot is a business search directory with more content and information about every business than any platform.

Dyn provides MetaCPAN with free DNS hosting.

Founded in 1998 as DynDNS.org, Dyn is the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leader, powering DNS and email delivery for enterprise, small business and personal users. The company’s DNS offerings range from simple DNS management to a robust enterprise class DNS solution built on a 17-location, globally diverse IP Anycast network with advanced Load Balancing, Geographic Traffic Management and CDN control features. The company’s email products provide inbound and outbound delivery solutions, highlighted by a comprehensive enterprise-class MTA service focused on maximum email deliverability and inbox monitoring. Dyn is committed to customer relationships and engineering excellence. Uptime is the Bottom Line. dyn.com - @DynInc.

Travis CI supports MetaCPAN by donating extra concurrent jobs.

Panopta supports MetaCPAN with a hosted server monitoring solution.

Panopta provides website & server monitoring for developers, IT managers, SaaS companies and Hosting Providers. With over 40 monitoring nodes around the globe, Panopta provides high precision monitoring which checks every 60 seconds and from around the world. Panopta's industry leading approach eliminates false alerts and can notify you in a number of different ways (email, voice, SMS and more). Panopta also allows you to get even deeper insight with our cross platform monitoring agent used for resource/application monitoring and our behind-the-firewall virtual monitoring appliance for private infrastructure. A fully comprehensive monitoring solution which scales with your business and your needs. Click here to get more information or to signup for a free 30 day trial.

iDoneThis supports MetaCPAN by donating a team account for project management.

Progress, Every Day

Reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, get a digest with what everyone on the team got done.

It's that simple. No hassle, no micromanagement. Get stuff done, and celebrate it with your team.

The QA Hackathon has sponsored the attendance of MetaCPAN hackers in Amsterdan (2011), Paris (2012), Lyon (2014), Berlin (2015) and Rugby (2016). Attendance at these events has helped move MetaCPAN development forward and has also allowed us to work more closely with other CPAN-minded developers. You can help to sponsor the QA Hackathon. Donations of any and all sizes are welcome.

easyname.com is the first official sponsor of the MetaCPAN hackathon.

easyname is an international domain and webhosting provider. easyname has positioned itself as an honest provider tailored towards professionals and domainers. They do not practice deceptive marketing tactics and sneaky upsells. They are proud long time supporters of CPAN.

cPanel is a web-based control panel for managing a web hosting account. It provides a simple yet powerful interface for managing email accounts, security, domains, databases, and more. cPanel was originally written (in Perl!) by Nick Koston in 1997. cPanel (the company) now employs over 200 people. They've been using Perl for nearly 20 years now, and have long been supporters of Perl and its community. You may recognise some of their developers who are CPAN authors: Todd Rinaldo (TODDR), Xan Hilmisdóttir (XAN), and others.

For over 26 years, Sonic has been committed to delivering the most technologically advanced and fastest internet service with the highest rated customer care in the industry. Sonic was built in Perl and still relies heavily on the language today for all facets of our internal software development

Since 1997, ActiveState has been providing software application development and management solutions, especially around Perl. ActivePerl (the original "Perl for Windows" distro), Perl Dev Kit, and polyglot Komodo IDE are some of the flagship products that have made them renowned by Perl developers around the world. More than two million developers and 97% of Fortune 1000 companies use ActiveState's solutions to develop, distribute, and manage their software applications. Global customers like Bank of America, CA, Cisco, HP, Lockheed Martin and Siemens rely on ActiveState for faster development, ensuring IT governance and compliance, and accelerating time to market.

ServerCentral is a managed datacenter services provider offering fully managed cloud, network, and server infrastructure for startups and Fortune 500s worldwide. ServerCentral uses Perl for inventory management, deployment systems, and numerous devops related projects.

Perl Services is the contracting company of Renée Bäcker, a CPAN author (RENEEB) since 2004.

Dealspotr is an innovative shopping ecosystem that connects emerging brands, digital influencers, and tech-savvy shoppers around today's best deals. The platform utilizes crowdsourcing to provide one of the internet's largest and most accurate database of coupons and offer codes, with over 5 million community-edited deals. Dealspotr is an active contributor to the open source community and is an enthusiastic supporter of MetaCPAN's efforts to serve the Perl developer community.

Booking.com formerly provided a server for testing and content backup.

The Perl Foundation (TPF) supported MetaCPAN by kindly covering the cost when we needed more disk space. In addition to this, TPF very kindly sponsored MetaCPAN's participation in the Outreach Program for Women in the summer of 2014.

speedchilli provided MetaCPAN with free hardware and bandwidth from 2010 to 2012.

"We are a web solutions company providing hosting and open source consultancy. We provide reliable, cost effective hosting for customers who require anything from a single dedicated server to a fully managed hosting solution. Being a business based around open source we feel it is important to give back to the community and are very happy to support the metacpan.org project." - Stewart Hunt

MetaCPAN.org (the search site) probably would not exist if it weren't for Google. This site was originally built as a layer on top of the MetaCPAN API by Moritz Onken as part of his Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. In 2014 GSoC also sponsored Talina Shrotriya's work on MetaCPAN. We're not actually sure if we're allowed to use the Google logo here, so we are erring on the side of caution.