Perl is a well-liked scripting language which is regarded as one of the most useful languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it is used to generate multiple web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages on the market is its support for modules - groups of commands for a specific process which can be included in a script by simply calling them i.e. you can write just one line within your script to have a module executed, rather than having the entire code that's already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl supports a lot of other programming languages and it comes with a lot of options depending on what a given app can do, it's employed by numerous famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

In case you acquire a Linux shared hosting service from us, you are able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems since we have a large number of modules present on the cloud hosting platform where all of the shared accounts are generated. With each package, you will have access to more than 3000 modules that you'll be able to employ in your scripts and you can find the whole list inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well as the path which you need to use to access them. When you use any kind of script that you have downloaded from some third-party website, you can be sure that it will run perfectly whatever the modules it requires for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you can create a cron job to do this automatically at a given time interval. If your website hosting package doesn't come with cron jobs, you're able to include this feature with just a couple of clicks inside the Upgrades area of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Perl is supported on all of our servers, so in case you aquire a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're able to use any kind of custom or ready-made CGI script or other Perl-based web application without difficulty. To save you time and efforts, we have also included several thousand modules that you will be able to take advantage of. You will be able to see the path to the library inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and include any module within your scripts. Some third-party scripts, for instance, need specific modules, so that they can operate effectively. Executing a .pl file, custom or ready-made, is possible in two ways - manually, when a visitor does a certain action on your site, or automatically, when you create a cron job from your account. In the second case, you will be able to choose the interval depending on what your script will do and how often you'd like it to run - once every minute, hour, day, etc.