Perl is a well-liked scripting language that is regarded as one of the most practical programming languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it is used to set up multiple web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the internet is the support for modules - sets of commands for a particular task that can be included in a script just by calling them which means that you can write only one line within your script to have a module executed, instead of having the whole program code that is already a part of the module anyway. Since Perl is compatible with many other languages and it comes with a lot of options depending on what a particular app can do, it's employed by many famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Perl is provided with all Linux shared hosting that we supply and you'll be able to execute any kind of .pl file that you upload in your account using the File Manager of the Control Panel or an FTP program. The latter will enable you to build a site with all of the functions that you'd like your visitors to have, but PHP does not supply. You can execute a script either manually or automatically with a cron job. Our packages include lots of Perl modules that you'll be able to employ and you can see a full list in your website hosting account in addition to the path which you need to include in your scripts, so as to be able to access these modules. If you want to execute a Perl/CGI script through a cron job but your package doesn't offer this option, you are able to add as many cron jobs as you need through the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of the website hosting Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

All of the semi-dedicated service that we provide can run CGI scripts or various other apps written in Perl and due to the fact that cron jobs are included in all plans, you're able to choose if a given script will be executed manually or automatically on regular basis. In addition, you can take advantage of a large library of over 3000 modules that are already installed on our servers and use their features so as to save your time when you create your scripts. In case you use a third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that in case it needs some module so as to work efficiently, we will have it because our library features both widely used modules and less popular ones. You are able to see the path to the modules which you have to use in our scripts in the Server Information drop-down menu of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel.