Perl is a powerful programming language which is regularly used for creating CGI scripts and also different web-based applications. One of its main advantages is the fact that it works with modules - ready-made batches of program code which are designed to perform a variety of tasks and to increase the performance of a certain script without clogging it with unneeded lines of code. In other words, if five jobs should be performed, you're able to employ five lines of code to call each of the modules instead of including a couple of hundred lines used to generate the actual modules within your script. Perl is very convenient and it may be used for a variety of purposes, that's why a lot of corporations have included it in their web products or on their resource-demanding websites - cPanel, IMDB, Craigslist, BugZilla, BBC and many more. It is ordinarily used with other languages for example PHP or Python.

Perl Scripting in Shared Website Hosting

In case you acquire a shared website hosting from our company, you are able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems because we have a lot of modules on the cloud platform where all the shared accounts are created. With each package, you will be provided with access to more than 3000 modules which you will be able to employ in your scripts and you'll find the complete list inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel together with the path which you have to use in order to be able to access them. Should you use any kind of script that you've downloaded from a third-party site, you can rest assured that it'll function flawlessly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Any kind of .pl script can be executed manually or you can set up a cron job to do this automatically at a pre-set time interval. If your website hosting package does not feature cron jobs, you are able to add this feature with a few clicks within the Upgrades section of the Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can take advantage of any kind of Perl-based application, including CGI scripts, with all of the semi-dedicated plans that we provide as Perl is supported on all of our servers. You are able to make any .pl file executable by setting the appropriate UNIX permissions for it from the Hepsia Control Panel or through any FTP client and depending on the actual script, it can be run manually as a result of some action the client performs on your website, or automatically via a cron job which you can create inside your account. If you decide to use a script which you've found online and it requires particular modules to to be available on your server, you'll be able to take full advantage of our rich library which includes over 3000 modules. In this way, you can be sure that every Perl application that you write or find on the worldwide web will work flawlessly on our end.