Perl is a widespread scripting language which is considered to be one of the most useful programming languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it is used to create a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages on the market is its compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a certain job which can be included in a script just by calling them which means that you'll be able to write just a single line in your script to get an entire module executed, rather than having the whole code that's already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl can be used with various other programming languages and it features a lot of options based on what a particular application can do, it is employed by lots of well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Website Hosting

If you buy a Linux website hosting from our company, you will be able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems because we have numerous modules present on the cloud hosting platform where all the shared accounts are generated. With every single package, you will be given access to over 3000 modules which you're able to employ in your scripts and you can find the whole list in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel together with the path that you should use in order to gain access to them. When you use any script which you have downloaded from a third-party website, you can be sure that it'll function perfectly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you can set up a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. In case your web hosting plan does not come with cron jobs, you can add this feature with a couple of clicks inside the Upgrades area of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All the Linux semi-dedicated services that we supply can run CGI scripts or various other apps developed in Perl and due to the fact that cron jobs are part of all our plans, you will be able to choose if a given script will be executed manually or automatically on a regular interval of time. In addition, you can benefit from a large library of over 3000 modules which are already installed on our servers and use their features in order to save your time when you write your scripts. In case you use some third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that in case it requires a specific module so as to run effectively, we'll have it since our library contains both popular modules and less popular ones. You'll be able to see the path to the modules that you should use in our scripts in the Server Information drop-down menu of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel.