Perl is an excellent programming language that is widely used for making CGI scripts and also different web-based apps. Among its main pros is the fact that it supports modules - ready-made batches of code which are used to execute multiple tasks and to extend the effectiveness of a certain script without clogging it with unneeded lines of code. In other words, when five processess need to be performed, you are able to employ five lines of program code to call each one of the modules rather than including hundreds of lines used to set up the actual modules within your script. Perl is really practical and it can be used for multiple purposes, that's why many companies have implemented it in their web products or on their resource-demanding sites - cPanel, IMDB, Craigslist, BugZilla, BBC and a lot more. It's often used with other programming languages such as PHP or Python.

Perl Scripting in Cloud Hosting

In case you buy a cloud hosting plan through us, you can run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems because we have a lot of modules on the cloud hosting platform where the shared accounts are generated. With each plan, you'll get access to over 3000 modules that you will be able to employ in your scripts and you can find the complete list within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel together with the path that you should use so as to gain access to them. When you use any script which you've downloaded from a third-party website, you can be sure that it'll function perfectly whatever the modules it needs for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you will be able to create a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. If your hosting plan doesn't come with cron jobs, you will be able to include this attribute with just a few clicks inside the Upgrades section of your Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

All the semi-dedicated hosting plans that we provide can run CGI scripts or various other applications created in Perl and considering that cron jobs are included in all of the packages, you can choose if a given script will be executed manually or automatically on regular basis. You can also use a huge library of more than 3000 modules that are already set up on our servers and use their functions to save your time when you create your scripts. If you use some third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that if it requires a certain module in order to work properly, we will have it because our library features both popular modules and less popular ones. You are able to find the path to the modules which you have to use in our scripts under the Server Information drop-down menu of the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.