Perl is a popular scripting language that's considered to be one of the most practical languages in the online world. It's feature-rich and it is used to generate various web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the internet is the support for modules - sets of commands for a specific process that can be integrated into a script by calling them i.e. you are able to write a single line within your script to have a module executed, instead of having the entire code which is already a part of the module anyway. Since Perl can be used with various other languages and it features a lot of options based on what a given app can do, it's employed by a number of renowned companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Web Hosting

Perl is provided with all Linux web hosting service that we provide and you'll be able to execute any .pl file that you upload within your account using the File Manager of the Control Panel or an FTP program. The aforementioned will allow you to create a website with all the features that you'd like your visitors to have, but PHP does not offer. You'll be able to execute a script either manually or automatically through a cron job. Our packages come with numerous Perl modules which you're able to employ and you will see the complete list in your website hosting account along with the path that you should use in your scripts, so as to be able to access these modules. In case you wish to execute a Perl/CGI script through a cron job yet your plan does not offer this feature, you are able to include as many cron jobs as you need from the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of your website hosting Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

All the semi-dedicated servers that we supply can run CGI scripts or various other apps created in Perl and considering the fact that cron jobs are featured in all of the plans, you're able to choose if a certain script will be executed manually or automatically on regular basis. You can also take advantage of a vast library of more than 3000 modules which are already set up on our servers and use their functions to save your time when you write your scripts. In case you use some third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that if it requires a certain module in order to function properly, we'll have it because our library contains both widely used modules and less popular ones. You're able to view the path to the modules that you should use in our scripts in the Server Information drop-down menu of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel.