Perl is a widely used scripting language that's regarded as being one of the most practical languages on the Internet. It is feature-rich and it's used to create a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the market is the compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a certain process which can be integrated into a script by simply calling them i.e. you're able to write only one line in your script to get a whole module executed, instead of having the entire program code that is already included in the module anyway. Since Perl can be used with many other programming languages and it provides a lot of options depending on what a specific application can do, it's used by numerous renowned companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Shared Web Hosting

In case you acquire a shared web hosting plan from us, you can execute Perl/CGI scripts without any problems since we have plenty of modules on the cloud platform where all the shared accounts are generated. With every single package, you'll have access to more than 3000 modules which you are able to employ in your scripts and you'll find the whole list within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel as well as the path which you should use to access them. In case you use any script that you have downloaded from some third-party website, you can rest assured that it'll run properly no matter what modules it requires for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you'll be able to create a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. If your hosting package doesn't feature cron jobs, you're able to add this attribute with a few clicks in the Upgrades area of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to include CGI scripts on your websites or some other Perl-based software for that matter, you won't encounter any kind of problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our machines and you're able to call any of them by including the path which you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. If you download some application from a third-party site, for example, you can rest assured that you'll be able to work with it no matter what modules it requires to work. Provided that your .pl files include the proper UNIX permissions to make them executable, you are able to decide whether a given script will be executed manually by a guest doing something on your website, or automatically by setting up a cron job in your account. When you use the second option, your script can be run every day, hour or minute according to your preference.