Perl is a well-liked scripting language that is considered to be one of the most useful programming languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate various web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the market is the compatibility with modules - sets of commands for a particular task which can be integrated into a script by simply calling them i.e. you are able to write just one line within your script to get a whole module executed, rather than having the whole program code which is already included in the module anyway. As Perl supports many other programming languages and it features a lot of functions based on what a particular app 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 Website Hosting
Perl is available with all the shared website hosting plans that we offer and you can execute any type of .pl file which you upload within your account with the File Manager of the Control Panel or an FTP program. The aforementioned will help you create a site with all of the features that you'd like your visitors to have, but PHP cannot provide. You are able to execute a script either manually or automatically with a cron job. Our packages feature lots of Perl modules that you can use and you can see a full list in your website hosting account in addition to the path that you have to include in your scripts, in order to be able to access these modules. In case you want to execute a Perl/CGI script using a cron job but your package does not offer this feature, you will be able to add as many cron jobs as you require through the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of your web hosting Control Panel.
Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can take advantage of any Perl-based application, including CGI scripts, with any of the semi-dedicated plans that we provide as Perl is supported on all our servers. You'll be able to make each .pl file executable by setting the right UNIX permissions for it from your Hepsia Control Panel or through any kind of FTP client and in accordance with the actual script, it can be run manually as a result of some action the client performs on the website, or automatically via a cron job which you can set up in your account. Provided you choose to employ a script that you have found online and it needs certain modules to to exist on the server, you will be able to take advantage of our vast library which includes over 3000 modules. Thus, you can be sure that any Perl app that you generate or find on the Internet will work properly on our end.