Perl is an excellent programming language that is frequently used for making CGI scripts as well as many different web-based apps. Among its main pros is that it supports modules - ready-made batches of code that are designed to do a variety of tasks and to extend the effectiveness of a given script without slowing it with unnecessary lines of program code. To put it simply, when five processess need to be executed, you're able to use five lines of program code in order to call each of the modules instead of adding hundreds of lines used to set up the actual modules in your script. Perl is very convenient and it may be used for multiple purposes, that's why a wide range of companies 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 with other languages for instance PHP or Python.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Provided you buy a Linux shared hosting package from our company, you are able to run Perl/CGI scripts without a problem because we have numerous modules installed on the cloud platform where the shared accounts are set up. With each and every plan, you will be provided with access to more than 3000 modules that you are able to employ in your scripts and you will find the whole list within your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel along with the path which you need to use to gain access to them. When you use any kind of script that you've downloaded from some third-party site, you can rest assured that it will work flawlessly no matter what modules it requires 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 given time interval. In case your website hosting plan doesn't include cron jobs, you'll be able to add this attribute with a couple of clicks in the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we provide are capable of running CGI scripts or all other applications developed in Perl and considering that cron jobs are part of all our packages, you will be able to choose if a certain script will be executed manually or automatically on a regular interval of time. What is more, you can take advantage of a large library of over 3000 modules which are already installed on our servers and use their functions to save your time when you write your scripts. In case you use a third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that if it needs a certain module in order to run effectively, we will have it as our library contains both popular modules and less popular ones. You are able to view the path to the modules which you need to use in our scripts in the Server Information drop-down menu of the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.