Perl is a well-liked scripting language that's considered to be one of the most practical languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it is used to set up various web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the web is its support for modules - groups of commands for a certain task that can be included in a script by calling them which means that you are able to write only one line within your script to have a module executed, instead of having the entire program code that's already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl is compatible with numerous other programming languages and it comes with a lot of options based on what a particular app can do, it's employed by many renowned companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Provided you get a shared hosting through us, you are able to run Perl/CGI scripts without a problem as we have plenty of modules present on the cloud platform where the shared accounts are set up. With every single plan, you will be given access to over 3000 modules which you are able to employ in your scripts and you will find the whole list inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel together with the path which you should use in order to gain access to them. In case you use any script that you have downloaded from some third-party website, you can rest assured that it'll work correctly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you'll be able to set up a cron job to do this automatically at a given time interval. If your web hosting plan doesn't come with cron jobs, you can add this option with a couple of clicks inside the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer are capable of running CGI scripts or any other applications created in Perl and due to the fact that cron jobs are featured in all of our packages, you're able to choose if a given script will be executed manually or automatically on regular basis. What's more, you can take advantage of a huge library of more than 3000 modules that are already installed on our servers and use their functions to save time when you create your scripts. In the event that you use a third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that if it needs a particular module so as to operate efficiently, we will have it since our library contains both widespread modules and less popular ones. You will be able to find the path to the modules which you should use in our scripts in the Server Information drop-down menu of the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel.