Perl is a widespread scripting language which is regarded as being one of the most practical languages in the online world. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate a number of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the internet is the support for modules - groups of commands for a particular process that can be integrated into a script just by calling them i.e. you'll be able to write just one line within your script to have an entire module executed, rather than having the entire program code that is already included in the module anyway. Since Perl can be used with various other programming languages and it features a lot of functions based on what a given application can do, it's employed by many popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Provided you get a shared hosting plan through our company, you're able to execute Perl/CGI scripts without a problem since we have numerous modules present on the cloud hosting platform where all of the shared accounts are generated. With each and every package, you will be given access to over 3000 modules that you're able to employ in your scripts and you can find the entire list in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel together with the path that you have to use to get access to them. When you use any script that you've downloaded from a third-party website, you can be sure that it'll work correctly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Any kind of .pl script can be executed manually or you'll be able to create a cron job to do this automatically at a given time interval. If your hosting plan doesn't feature cron jobs, you can add this attribute with just a couple of clicks inside the Upgrades area of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

All of the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we supply are capable of running CGI scripts or any other apps written in Perl and since cron jobs are a part of all our plans, you'll be able to decide if a given script will be executed manually or automatically on regular basis. You can also use a vast library of more than 3000 modules which are already set up on our servers and use their functionality so as to save time when you create your scripts. In case you use a third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that if it requires a certain module to function efficiently, we will have it as our library features both widely used modules and less popular ones. You can view the path to the modules that you need to use in our scripts under the Server Information drop-down menu of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel.