Perl is a popular scripting language that is considered to be one of the most useful languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it is used to generate various web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages out there is the compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a particular task that can be included in a script by calling them which means that you're able to write just one line inside your script to get a module executed, instead of having the entire code which is already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl is compatible with many other programming languages and it comes with a lot of functions depending on what a specific application can do, it's employed by a number of well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.

Perl Scripting in Shared Website Hosting

As Perl is set up on our cloud website hosting platform, you're able to execute Perl/CGI scripts with all of our shared website hosting packages without difficulty. You can even do this automatically via a cron job when your package includes this feature. If not, you'll be able to include cron jobs via the Upgrades area of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. More than 3000 Perl modules are offered on our servers and you can use any of them with your scripts. The full list can be found in the Control Panel and if you wish to use any module, you simply have to include the path to our module library within your script. In case third-party scripts that you would like to add to your site require a certain module, for example, you don't need to worry whether they will operate properly or not. In this way, you will be able to create a dynamic Internet site and supply countless attributes to your visitors.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to take advantage of every Perl-based application, including CGI scripts, with any of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer as Perl is supported on all of our servers. You will be able to make any .pl file executable by setting the right UNIX permissions for it from the Hepsia Control Panel or through any FTP client and depending on the actual script, it can be executed manually as a result of some action the client performs on your website, or automatically by a cron job which you can create in your account. If you choose to employ a script which you have found online and it needs certain modules to to be available on your server, you can take full advantage of our vast library which includes more than 3000 modules. In this way, you can rest assured that every Perl app that you create or find on the Internet will work properly on our end.