Perl is a popular scripting language which is regarded as one of the most useful languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate multiple web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages on the market is the compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a specific task that can be integrated into a script by simply calling them i.e. you're able to write just one line within your script to have a whole module executed, instead of having the entire code which is already included in the module anyway. Because Perl is compatible with numerous other programming languages and it provides a lot of functions depending on what a specific app can do, it is employed by numerous popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.

Perl Scripting in Website Hosting

Since Perl is installed on our cloud web hosting platform, you are able to run Perl/CGI scripts with all of our website hosting plans without any difficulties. You can even do this automatically via a cron job when your plan has this feature. If not, you are able to add cron jobs through the Upgrades section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. More than 3000 Perl modules are accessible on our servers and you'll be able to use all of them with your scripts. The entire list is available in the Control Panel and if you need to use any module, you simply have to add the path to our module library in your script. If third-party scripts which you would like to add to your website ask for a certain module, for instance, you won't have to worry if they will run properly or not. This way, you are able to make a dynamic site and offer hundreds of different features to your website visitors.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Perl is supported on all of our servers, so if you obtain a semi-dedicated server account through our company, you can use any kind of tailor-made or ready-made CGI script or any other Perl-based web application without difficulty. To save your time and efforts, we have also installed several thousand modules that you will be able to employ. You will be able to see the path to the library in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and add any module in your scripts. Some third-party scripts, for example, need specific modules, so that they can work efficiently. Executing a .pl file, custom or ready-made, is possible in two separate ways - manually, in case a visitor does a particular action on your website, or automatically, if you create a cron job from your account. In the second case, you are able to choose the interval based on what your script will do and how often you want it to run - once a day, hour, minute, etc.