Perl is a widespread scripting language that's considered to be one of the most useful programming languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it's used to set up a variety of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the market is its support for modules - sets of commands for a specific job that can be integrated into a script by simply calling them which means that you are able to write only one line within your script to get an entire module executed, instead of having the whole code that is already included in the module anyway. Because Perl can be used with various other languages and it features a lot of options based on what a specific app can do, it's used by lots of popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to use CGI scripts and applications written in Perl with all our Linux shared hosting because we have a rich library more than 3000 modules present on our tailor-made cloud website hosting platform to ensure that all of the dependencies for a custom-made or a ready-made script will be there when you need them. You will be able to execute a .pl file in two ways - either manually from your website, or automatically through a cron job which will run a particular file regularly. If the package that you have purchased doesn't come with cron jobs included, you're able to add as many as you want from the Upgrades menu within your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. Also, you have to ensure that the script file has the proper executable permissions. When you use our shared packages, you will be able to create a site with as many functions and features as you'd like.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to include CGI scripts on your sites or another Perl-based app for that matter, you will not experience any problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our machines and you'll be able to call each of them by including the path which you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you use. Any time you download some app from a third-party site, for instance, you can be sure that you will be able to work with it whatever the modules it needs to work. Provided that your .pl files include the proper UNIX permissions to make them executable, you can decide whether a given script will be run manually by a visitor doing something on your site, or automatically by creating a cron job in your account. With the second option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute depending on your preference.