Perl is a widely used scripting language which is regarded as being one of the most practical languages in the online world. It is feature-rich and it's used to set up a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages on the market is the support for modules - sets of commands for a certain process which can be included in a script by simply calling them which means that you'll be able to write just one line within your script to get a module executed, rather than having the entire program code that is already a part of the module anyway. Since Perl can be used with a lot of other languages and it features a lot of options depending on what a particular application can do, it is used by a number of popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you acquire a cloud web hosting through our company, you will be able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems since we have plenty of modules present on the cloud hosting platform where all the shared accounts are generated. With each and every plan, you will be provided with access to over 3000 modules which you are able to use in your scripts and you will find the full list within your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel as well as the path that you need to use in order to get access to them. Should you use any script which you have downloaded from some third-party site, you can be sure that it will run flawlessly no matter what modules it needs for that. Any .pl script can be executed manually or you will be able to set up a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. In case your web hosting package doesn't come with cron jobs, you will be able to include this option with just a few clicks inside the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you wish to include CGI scripts on your websites or any other Perl-based application for that matter, you will not experience any kind of problems if you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our machines and you will be able to call them by adding the path which you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you use. Every time you download some application from a third-party site, for example, you can rest assured that you will be able to use it whatever the modules it requires to function. Provided that your .pl files include the proper UNIX permissions to be executable, you'll be able to choose whether a given script will be run manually by a visitor doing something on your site, or automatically by setting up a cron job in your account. With the aforementioned option, your script can be run every minute, hour or day in accordance with your preference.