Perl is a sought-after scripting language that's regarded as being one of the most practical languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it is used to set up various web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages on the internet is its compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a certain task that can be included in a script by calling them i.e. you'll be able to write a single line within your script to have an entire module executed, instead of having the whole code which is already included in the module anyway. As Perl supports various other languages and it provides a lot of functions depending on what a given app can do, it is used by many famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Provided you obtain a Linux shared hosting through us, you'll be able to run Perl/CGI scripts without a problem because we have plenty of modules present on the cloud hosting platform where the shared accounts are set up. With each plan, you will be given access to over 3000 modules that you can use in your scripts and you can find the full list within your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well as the path which you have to use so as to access them. When you use any script that you have downloaded from some third-party site, you can be sure that it will function properly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you'll be able to set up a cron job to do this automatically at a given time interval. If your hosting plan does not feature cron jobs, you are able to include this attribute with just a few clicks in the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you wish to include CGI scripts on your websites or some other Perl-based application 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 can call each of them by adding the path which you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you've chosen. If you download some app from a third-party site, for example, you can rest assured that you will be able to use it regardless of the modules it requires to function. Provided that your .pl files include the appropriate UNIX permissions to ensure they are executable, you're able to decide whether a given script will be run manually by a guest doing something on your website, or automatically by setting up a cron job inside your account. When you use the latter option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute in accordance with your preference.