Perl is a popular scripting language that's regarded as being one of the most useful programming languages in the online world. It's feature-rich and it is used to generate various web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages out there is the compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a certain process which can be integrated into a script by calling them i.e. you can write a single line in your script to get a module executed, rather than having the whole code that's already included in the module anyway. Because Perl can be used with many other programming languages and it comes with a lot of functions based on what a particular application can do, it is used by many popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.
Perl Scripting in Shared Web Hosting
You'll be able to use CGI scripts and apps created in Perl with all of our shared web hosting service because we have a rich library of over 3000 modules on our tailor-made cloud website hosting platform in order to ensure that all the dependencies for a custom or a ready-made script are there any time you need them. You are able to run a .pl file in two separate ways - either manually from your site, or automatically via a cron job that will run a certain file on regular intervals. In case the plan which you have selected doesn't come with cron jobs included, you are able to add as many as you want from the Upgrades menu inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. You also need to ensure that the script file features the proper executable permissions. With our shared packages, you'll be able to build a website with as many functions and features as you'd like.
Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you would like to include CGI scripts on your sites or some other Perl-based application for that matter, you will not experience any problems in the event that you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our machines and you are able to call any of them by including the path that you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you use. When you download some app from a third-party website, for example, you can rest assured that you'll be able to use it whatever the modules it needs to function. Provided that your .pl files include the proper UNIX permissions to be executable, you will be able to choose whether a given 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 second option, your script can be run every minute, hour or day according to your preference.