Perl is a widespread scripting language that's regarded as one of the most useful languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it's used to set up a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the market is the support for modules - groups of commands for a specific job that can be included in a script just by calling them which means that you can write only one line in your script to have a module executed, rather than having the whole program code that's already a part of the module anyway. As Perl can be used with many other programming languages and it provides a lot of options based on what a specific application can do, it's employed by many popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared hosting package through us, you'll be able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems since we have plenty of modules installed on the cloud platform where the shared accounts are created. With every single plan, you will have access to more than 3000 modules which you can employ in your scripts and you'll find the whole list within your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well as the path which you need to use to be able to access them. Should you use any script which you have downloaded from some third-party website, you can rest assured that it'll function flawlessly no matter what modules it needs for that. Any .pl script can be executed manually or you can set up a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. In case your web hosting plan does not feature cron jobs, you're able to add this attribute with a few clicks in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Perl is supported on all our servers, so when you obtain a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you can use any tailor-made or ready-made CGI script or any other Perl-based web app without any difficulties. To save you time and efforts, we've also set up several thousand modules that you will be able to take advantage of. You can see the path to the library inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and include any module in your scripts. Some third-party scripts, for example, need to have specific modules, so that they can operate effectively. Executing a .pl file, custom or ready-made, can be achieved in two separate ways - manually, in case a visitor performs a particular action on your website, or automatically, when you create a cron job from your account. In the second case, you are able to choose the interval depending on what the script will do and how often you'd like it to run - once a day, hour, minute, etc.