Perl is a very popular scripting language that is regarded as one of the most practical programming languages on the Internet. It is feature-rich and it is used to set up various web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the market is its support for modules - groups of commands for a particular job that can be included in a script just by calling them which means that you'll be able to write a single line in your script to have a whole module executed, instead of having the entire program code that's already included in the module anyway. As Perl supports many other programming languages and it comes with a lot of options based on what a particular application can do, it is used by a number of renowned companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Cloud Web Hosting

If you get a cloud web hosting through our company, you will be able to run Perl/CGI scripts without a problem because we have a lot of modules present on the cloud platform where all the shared accounts are generated. With each and every package, you'll have access to more than 3000 modules which you'll be able to use in your scripts and you'll find a full list inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel together with the path which you need to use in order to access them. When you use any kind of script which you've downloaded from a third-party website, you can be sure that it will function flawlessly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Any .pl script can be executed manually or you can set up a cron job to do this automatically at a given time interval. In case your web hosting package doesn't come with cron jobs, you can include this option with a few clicks within the Upgrades section of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to include CGI scripts on your websites or another Perl-based app for that matter, you won't experience any problems in the event that you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our servers and you are able to call them by including the path which you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you use. If you download some application from a third-party site, for example, you can rest assured that you'll be able to work with it no matter what modules it requires to function. Provided that your .pl files include the right UNIX permissions to make them executable, you are able to select whether a particular script will be executed manually by a guest doing something on your website, or automatically by setting up a cron job inside your account. Using the second option, your script can be executed every minute, hour or day in accordance with your preference.