Perl is a popular scripting language that is considered to be one of the most practical languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it is used to generate various web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages out there is its support for modules - groups of commands for a certain task that can be integrated into a script just by calling them i.e. you can write just one line in your script to have a module executed, rather than having the entire program code which is already included in the module anyway. As Perl is compatible with various other programming languages and it features a lot of functions depending on what a specific application can do, it is used by many popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

If you buy a Linux shared hosting from us, you will be able to execute Perl/CGI scripts without any problems since we have a lot of modules present on the cloud hosting platform where all the shared accounts are generated. With each package, you will have access to over 3000 modules that you'll be able to employ in your scripts and you can find the entire list within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel along with the path which you need to use to access them. In case you use any kind of script that you've downloaded from some third-party website, you can rest assured that it will function perfectly no matter what modules it needs for that. Any kind of .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 does not come with cron jobs, you can include this option with a couple of clicks in the Upgrades section of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

Perl is supported on all of our servers, so in case you aquire a semi-dedicated server account through our company, you are able to use any custom or ready-made CGI script or other Perl-based web app without difficulty. To save your time and efforts, we have also added several thousand modules which you can use. You will be able to see the path to the library in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and include any module in your scripts. Some third-party scripts, for instance, require certain modules, so that they can work effectively. Executing a .pl file, custom or ready-made, is possible in two ways - manually, if a visitor does a certain action on your site, or automatically, when you set up a cron job through your account. In the second case, you can select the interval according to what the script will do and how often you'd like it to run - once every minute, hour, day, etcetera.