Perl is a very popular scripting language which is regarded as one of the most useful languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it is used to generate various web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages out there is the compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a particular process that can be integrated into a script just by calling them i.e. you can write only one line in your script to get a whole module executed, instead of having the whole program code that's already a part of the module anyway. Since Perl can be used with many other programming languages and it provides a lot of functions based on what a given app can do, it is employed by many famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and so on.

Perl Scripting in Web Hosting

Provided you get a web hosting plan from our company, you will be able to execute Perl/CGI scripts without a problem because we have numerous modules on the cloud hosting platform where all of the shared accounts are generated. With each and every package, you'll have access to over 3000 modules which you're able to employ in your scripts and you can find a full list inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel as well as the path that you need to use so as to be able to access them. When you use any script which you have downloaded from some third-party site, you can be sure that it will run properly no matter what modules it requires for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you'll be able to create a cron job to do this automatically at a specific time interval. If your web hosting plan doesn't include cron jobs, you're able to include this attribute with a couple of clicks inside the Upgrades section of your Control Panel.