Perl is a popular scripting language which is considered to be one of the most useful languages in the online world. It's feature-rich and it is used to set up a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the internet is its support for modules - sets of commands for a particular job that can be included in a script just by calling them which means that you can write just a single line within your script to get a module executed, rather than having the entire code that's already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl can be used with a lot of other programming languages and it provides a lot of options depending on what a given application can do, it's used by a number of popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.

Perl Scripting in Hosting

Since Perl is set up on our cloud hosting platform, you are able to execute Perl/CGI scripts with all of our hosting packages without any difficulties. You can even do this automatically through a cron job when your package comes with this feature. If not, you're able to add cron jobs from the Upgrades section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Over 3000 Perl modules can be found on our servers and you'll be able to use any of them with your scripts. The full list is available inside the Control Panel and when you want to use any module, you just have to add the path to our module library inside your script. When third-party scripts that you want to include in your site require a particular module, for instance, you don't need to worry whether they will run efficiently or not. This way, you're able to build a dynamic Internet site and supply plenty of attributes to your site visitors.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can work with every Perl-based application, including CGI scripts, with any of the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we offer as Perl is supported on all of our servers. You are able to make every .pl file executable by setting the proper UNIX permissions for it from the Hepsia Control Panel or through any FTP client and depending on the actual script, it can be run manually as a result of some action the client performs on the site, or automatically via a cron job which you can set up in your account. If you decide to employ a script which you have found online and it requires specific modules to be present on your server, you can reap the benefits of our rich library which includes more than 3000 modules. This way, you can rest assured that every Perl app that you generate or find on the web will perform flawlessly on our end.