Perl is a popular scripting language that is considered to be one of the most useful programming languages in the online world. It is feature-rich and it's used to generate a number of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the alternative languages on the web is the support for modules - sets of commands for a particular job that can be integrated into a script just by calling them i.e. you're able to write just a single line inside your script to have a module executed, rather than having the entire code that is already included in the module anyway. Because Perl is compatible with numerous other programming languages and it provides a lot of functions depending on what a given application can do, it's used by many well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Provided you buy a shared hosting from us, you're able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems since we have numerous modules present on the cloud platform where all of the shared accounts are set up. With each plan, you'll get access to more than 3000 modules that you'll be able to employ in your scripts and you'll find the whole list inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel along with the path that you should use so as to gain access to them. When you use any script which you've downloaded from some third-party website, you can rest assured that it will function properly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Any kind of .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 website hosting plan does not include cron jobs, you will be able to include this option with a few clicks within the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.