Perl is a well-known scripting language that is regarded as one of the most useful programming languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it is used to create various web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the market is its support for modules - groups of commands for a certain process that can be integrated into a script by calling them i.e. you're able to write only one line inside your script to have an entire module executed, rather than having the entire code that is already included in the module anyway. As Perl can be used with various other programming languages and it features a lot of options depending on what a specific app can do, it is employed by many well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Shared Web Hosting

As Perl is installed on our cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to execute Perl/CGI scripts with any of our shared web hosting packages without any difficulties. You may even do this automatically via a cron job when your plan includes this option. If not, you're able to add cron jobs through the Upgrades section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. More than 3000 Perl modules can be accessed on our servers and you'll be able to use any of them with your scripts. A complete list can be found inside the Control Panel and when you'd like to use any module, you simply have to add the path to our module library within your script. In case third-party scripts which you would like to add to your website require a particular module, for example, you will not need to worry if they will work properly or not. This way, you are able to make a dynamic website and offer plenty of characteristics to your website visitors.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to include CGI scripts on your sites or another Perl-based application for that matter, you will not experience any problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our servers and you can call any of them by including the path which you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. Every time you download some application from a third-party website, for example, you can be sure that you will be able to use it whatever the modules it needs to function. As long as your .pl files include the appropriate UNIX permissions to make them executable, you're able to select whether a specific script will be run manually by a guest doing something on your site, or automatically by creating a cron job in your account. With the latter option, your script can be run every day, hour or minute in accordance with your preference.