Perl is a very popular scripting language that's regarded as being one of the most practical languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it is used to generate a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the web is the compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a certain job which can be integrated into a script by simply calling them i.e. you'll be able to write just a single line within your script to have a whole module executed, instead of having the whole program code that is already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl supports various other languages and it provides a lot of options depending on what a specific application can do, it's used by many famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.
Perl Scripting in Website Hosting
Provided you obtain a website hosting from our company, you will be able to execute Perl/CGI scripts without any problems as we have numerous modules installed on the cloud platform where all the shared accounts are created. With each plan, you'll get access to over 3000 modules that you'll be able to employ in your scripts and you'll find the whole list in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel along with the path that you have to use so as to be able to access them. When you use any script which you have downloaded from some third-party website, you can be sure that it will function properly whatever the modules it needs for that. Any kind of .pl script can be executed manually or you will be able to set up a cron job to do this automatically at a given time interval. If your website hosting plan does not include cron jobs, you're able to include this feature with a couple of clicks within the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.
Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers
You are able to use any Perl-based application, including CGI scripts, with all of the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we offer as Perl is supported on all our servers. You're able to make any .pl file executable by setting the right UNIX permissions for it from your Hepsia Control Panel or through any kind of FTP client and depending on the actual script, it may be executed manually as a result of some action your client performs on the site, or automatically through a cron job that you can create inside your account. In case you want to employ a script which you've found online and it requires certain modules to be present on the server, you're able to benefit from our vast library that features more than 3000 modules. Thus, you can be sure that any kind of Perl app that you write or find on the worldwide web will function properly on our end.