Perl is a very popular scripting language that's considered to be one of the most practical programming languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate a number of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages on the web is the support for modules - sets of commands for a specific task which can be integrated into a script by calling them which means that you'll be able to write only one line within your script to have an entire module executed, rather than having the entire code which is already included in the module anyway. As Perl supports various other programming languages and it features a lot of options based on what a given app can do, it's employed by a number of famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.

Perl Scripting in Shared Web Hosting

In case you acquire a shared web hosting through our company, you can execute Perl/CGI scripts without a problem since we have a large number of modules on the cloud platform where all of the shared accounts are set up. With each and every plan, you'll have access to over 3000 modules that you will be able to use in your scripts and you'll find the whole list inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well as the path that you should use in order to be able to access them. When you use any script that you have downloaded from a third-party website, you can rest assured that it'll work properly regardless of what modules it needs for that. Any kind of .pl script can be executed manually or you will be able to set up a cron job to do this automatically at a pre-set time interval. In case your hosting plan does not come with cron jobs, you are able to add this attribute with a couple of clicks in the Upgrades section of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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