Perl is a popular programming language, which is used to make various web applications and CGI scripts. Many programmers consider it to be among the most practical programming languages out there since it supports the usage of modules - small parts of program code with pre-defined subroutines that are used to execute a specific task. The modules can save you a lot of time and they can contribute to the rapid speed of your websites because you are able to include only 1 line of program code to call a given module rather than using all of the program code for the task within your script. Perl is a multi-purpose programming language most often used for scripts, but it has been employed to generate a variety of popular pieces of web software as well, like cPanel, BugZilla and Movable Type. It's also employed on high-traffic sites for instance IMDB, Craigslist, Ticketmaster and many more.

Perl Scripting in Web Hosting

Since Perl is installed on our cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to run Perl/CGI scripts with all of our web hosting plans without any difficulties. You may also do this automatically through a cron job if your plan includes this feature. If not, you'll be able to 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 entire list is available in the Control Panel and when you'd like to use any module, you only have to include the path to our module library in your script. If third-party scripts that you want to include in your website require a particular module, for example, you won't have to worry if they will work efficiently or not. In this way, you will be able to make a dynamic website and provide plenty of functions to your visitors.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to include CGI scripts on your websites or any other Perl-based software for that matter, you will not encounter any kind of problems in the event that you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our servers and you can call each of them by including the path that you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. When you download some app from a third-party website, for instance, you can rest assured that you will be able to work with it no matter what modules it requires to function. Provided that your .pl files have the proper UNIX permissions to make them executable, you're able to choose whether a certain script will be executed manually by a guest doing something on your site, or automatically by creating a cron job inside your account. Using the aforementioned option, your script can be executed every minute, hour or day in accordance with your preference.