Perl is a popular scripting language that's considered to be one of the most practical programming languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate various web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages out there is the compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a certain task which can be integrated into a script by calling them which means that you'll be able to write just one line in your script to have an entire module executed, instead of having the whole program code that is already included in the module anyway. Since Perl supports a lot of other languages and it comes with a lot of options based on what a given app can do, it's used by many famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Provided you buy a shared hosting service through us, you are able to execute Perl/CGI scripts without any problems as we have numerous modules present on the cloud hosting platform where all the shared accounts are set up. With every single plan, you will be given access to over 3000 modules which you will be able to use in your scripts and you'll find a full list within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel together with the path that you should use in order to gain access to them. Should you use any kind of script that you have downloaded from a third-party site, you can be sure that it will work perfectly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Any .pl script can be executed manually or you'll be able to set up a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. In case your website hosting plan does not include cron jobs, you can include this attribute with just a few clicks within the Upgrades area of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you would like to include CGI scripts on your websites or another Perl-based app for that matter, you will not have any kind of problems if you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our servers and you are able to call any of them by adding the path that you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've chosen. Every time you download some app from a third-party website, for instance, you can rest assured that you'll be able to use it regardless of the modules it needs to work. Provided that your .pl files include the right UNIX permissions to ensure they are executable, you'll be able to select whether a specific script will be run manually by a guest doing something on your site, or automatically by setting up a cron job in your account. Using the latter option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute in accordance with your preference.