Perl is a popular scripting language that is regarded as being one of the most practical programming languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it's used to create a number of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the market is its support for modules - sets of commands for a certain process which can be integrated into a script just by calling them which means that you're able to write just one line inside your script to have an entire module executed, rather than having the whole code which is already included in the module anyway. As Perl can be used with various other languages and it comes with a lot of options depending on what a specific app can do, it is employed by a number of renowned companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Shared Website Hosting

As Perl is installed on our cloud web hosting platform, you'll be able to run Perl/CGI scripts with all of our shared website hosting packages without difficulty. You can even do this automatically through a cron job if your package comes with this attribute. If not, you can include cron jobs via the Upgrades area of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. More than 3000 Perl modules are accessible on our servers and you can use all of them with your scripts. The full list is available inside the Control Panel and if you want to use any module, you simply have to add the path to our module library inside your script. In case third-party scripts which you would like to include in your site require a specific module, for instance, you do not need to worry whether they will work properly or not. This way, you'll be able to create a dynamic Internet site and provide various options to your website visitors.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to use every Perl-based application, including CGI scripts, with all of the semi-dedicated servers that we provide as Perl is supported on all our servers. You will be able to make any kind of .pl file executable by setting the proper UNIX permissions for it via the Hepsia Control Panel or through any FTP client and depending on the actual script, it can be executed manually as a result of some action your client performs on your website, or automatically via a cron job that you can create inside your account. Provided you choose to use a script that you have found online and it needs specific modules to to be available on your server, you can reap the benefits of our vast library which features more than 3000 modules. In this way, you can be sure that any Perl application that you generate or find on the Internet will function perfectly on our end.