Perl is a widely used scripting language that is considered to be one of the most useful programming languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it is used to set up a variety of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages out there is its support for modules - groups of commands for a particular task which can be included in a script by calling them i.e. you'll be able to write just a single line inside your script to get a module executed, rather than having the entire code which is already a part of the module anyway. As Perl can be used with many other programming languages and it provides a lot of options depending on what a given application can do, it is used by many well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.
Perl Scripting in Website Hosting
As Perl is installed on our cloud web hosting platform, you are able to run Perl/CGI scripts with all of our website hosting packages without difficulty. You may even do this automatically through a cron job when your package comes with this option. If not, you can include cron jobs from the Upgrades section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. Over 3000 Perl modules can be accessed on our servers and you will be able to use them with your scripts. The complete list can be found in the Control Panel and when you'd like to use any module, you just have to add the path to our module library within your script. In case third-party scripts that you want to include in your site demand a certain module, for example, you will not need to worry whether they will run effectively or not. In this way, you are able to build a dynamic site and offer countless options to your visitors.
Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you wish to include CGI scripts on your websites or another Perl-based software for that matter, you won't have any sort of problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our servers and you're able to call each of them by including the path which you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've chosen. When you download some app from a third-party website, for instance, you can be sure that you will be able to use it no matter what modules it requires to work. Provided that your .pl files include the appropriate UNIX permissions to make them executable, you're able to select whether a certain script will be run manually by a visitor doing something on your website, or automatically by setting up a cron job inside your account. Using the second option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute in accordance with your preference.