Perl is a very popular computer language, which is employed to build various web apps and CGI scripts. Lots of programmers consider it to be among the most efficient languages out there because it supports the use of modules - small parts of program code with pre-defined subroutines that are used to perform a certain task. The modules will save you lots of time and they will contribute to the fast speed of your sites as you're able to include only 1 line of program code to call a given module rather than using all the program code for the task in your script. Perl is a universal programming language primarily used for scripts, but it has been used to generate a number of popular pieces of web software as well, for instance cPanel, BugZilla and Movable Type. It's also used on high-traffic sites such as IMDB, Craigslist, Ticketmaster and many others.

Perl Scripting in Website Hosting

Provided you obtain a website hosting plan from us, you will be able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems as we have numerous modules present on the cloud platform where all the shared accounts are set up. With every single plan, you'll have access to over 3000 modules which you'll be able to use in your scripts and you can find the entire list inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel together with the path which you have to use in order to access them. When you use any script that you've downloaded from a third-party website, you can rest assured that it'll run properly no matter what modules it requires for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you will be able to set up a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. If your website hosting package doesn't come with cron jobs, you can include this feature with just a couple of clicks inside the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated hosting plans that we supply can run CGI scripts or any other applications written in Perl and since cron jobs are featured in all of the packages, you can pick if a given script will be executed manually or automatically on a regular interval of time. What's more, you can benefit from a large library of over 3000 modules that are already installed on our servers and use their functionality in order to save your time when you create your scripts. In case you use a third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that if it requires a particular module to function properly, we'll have it since our library contains both popular modules and less popular ones. You'll be 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 website hosting Control Panel.