Perl is a powerful programming language that is regularly used for setting up CGI scripts and different web-based apps. Among its major advantages is that it supports modules - ready-made batches of program code that are employed to perform numerous tasks and to enhance the effectiveness of a given script without clogging it with unneeded lines of code. To put it simply, when five jobs should be performed, you are able to use five lines of code in order to call each one of the modules instead of including a couple of hundred lines used to set up the actual modules within your script. Perl is really practical and it can be used for many different purposes, that's why many corporations have integrated it in their web products or on their high-traffic websites - cPanel, IMDB, Craigslist, BugZilla, BBC and many more. It's ordinarily used along with other programming languages for example PHP or Python.

Perl Scripting in Shared Website Hosting

Since Perl is installed on our cloud website hosting platform, you will be able to execute Perl/CGI scripts with all of our shared website hosting plans without any difficulties. You may even do this automatically via a cron job if your package comes with this feature. If not, you will be able to include cron jobs from the Upgrades section of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. More than 3000 Perl modules are available on our servers and you can use any of them with your scripts. A complete list is available in the Control Panel and if you want to use any module, you just have to add the path to our module library inside your script. In case third-party scripts which you want to include in your website demand a specific module, for example, you don't have to worry whether they will run properly or not. In this way, you will be able to create a dynamic Internet site and provide hundreds of different features to your site visitors.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to include CGI scripts on your sites or another Perl-based application for that matter, you won't encounter any sort of problems if you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our servers and you are able to call each of them by adding the path which you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. Every time you download some app from a third-party website, for example, you can be sure that you'll be able to work with it no matter what modules it requires to function. Given that your .pl files include the appropriate UNIX permissions to be executable, you can choose whether a particular script will be executed manually by a visitor doing something on your website, or automatically by creating a cron job in your account. When you use the second option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute depending on your preference.