Perl is a very popular scripting language that's regarded as being one of the most practical languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate various web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages on the internet is the compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a certain job which can be included in a script by simply calling them which means that you're able to write only one line inside your script to have a module executed, rather than having the whole code that is already included in the module anyway. Since Perl is compatible with many other programming languages and it features a lot of options depending on what a specific application can do, it's employed by lots of popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Shared Web Hosting

In case you buy a shared web hosting plan through us, you will be able to run Perl/CGI scripts without any problems since we have plenty of modules present on the cloud hosting platform where all the shared accounts are created. With every single plan, you'll be given access to over 3000 modules that you will be able to employ in your scripts and you will find a full list inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well as the path that you should use so as to get access to them. Should you use any kind of script which you have downloaded from a third-party website, you can rest assured that it will work perfectly no matter what 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 pre-set time interval. If your website hosting plan does not come with cron jobs, you're able to add this feature with a few clicks in the Upgrades area of the Control Panel.