Perl is a very popular scripting language which is regarded as being one of the most practical languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it is used to create various web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the market is the compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a particular task which can be included in a script by calling them i.e. you can write a single line in your script to have a whole module executed, rather than having the entire program code that's already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl supports many other programming languages and it comes with a lot of options based on what a given application can do, it is used by a number of popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.

Perl Scripting in Shared Website Hosting

You can use CGI scripts and applications written in Perl with all of our shared website hosting service because we have a rich library of over 3000 modules present on our custom-made cloud hosting platform to ensure that all of the dependencies for a custom-made or a ready-made script will be there any time you need them. You can execute a .pl file in two ways - either manually through your site, or automatically through a cron job that will run a specific file regularly. In case the plan which you have acquired doesn't come with cron jobs included, you'll be able to include as many as you want from the Upgrades menu within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In addition, you need to ensure that the script file features the proper executable permissions. With our shared packages, you'll be able to build a website with as many functions and features as you would like.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

Perl is supported on all of our servers, so if you buy a semi-dedicated server account through us, you can use any kind of custom-made or ready-made CGI script or any other Perl-based web application without any difficulties. To save you time and effort, we have also added several thousand modules which you're able to take advantage of. You will be able to see the path to the library in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and add any module within your scripts. Some third-party scripts, for example, need to have specific modules, so that they can function efficiently. Executing a .pl file, custom or ready-made, can be done in two ways - manually, when a visitor does a particular action on your website, or automatically, when you create a cron job through your account. In the second case, you can select the interval depending on what the script will do and how often you'd like it to run - once every day, hour, minute, etc.