Perl is a sought-after scripting language that's regarded as one of the most useful languages in the online world. It is feature-rich and it is used to set up a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages on the internet is its support for modules - groups of commands for a specific job which can be integrated into a script by simply calling them i.e. you can write a single line in your script to have a module executed, rather than having the whole code which is already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl can be used with many other programming languages and it comes with a lot of functions depending on what a given app can do, it's employed by many renowned companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.

Perl Scripting in Web Hosting

Perl is available with all of the Linux web hosting service that we provide and you will be able to execute any kind of .pl file that you upload within your account using the File Manager of the Control Panel or an FTP program. The aforementioned will help you create an Internet site with all the characteristics that you would like your visitors to have, but PHP fails to provide. You're able to execute a script either manually or automatically through a cron job. Our packages include lots of Perl modules which you're able to use and you will see the full list in your website hosting account along with the path that you need to use in your scripts, in order to be able to access these modules. In case you want to execute a Perl/CGI script using a cron job however your package doesn't offer this option, you are able to include as many cron jobs as you need via the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of the hosting Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you want to include CGI scripts on your sites or any other Perl-based software for that matter, you will not experience any problems if you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our servers and you can call each of them by adding the path that you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you've chosen. When you download some app from a third-party website, for example, you can be sure that you will be able to work with it no matter what modules it requires to function. As long as your .pl files have the right UNIX permissions to be executable, you're able to select whether a certain script will be run manually by a visitor doing something on your site, or automatically by creating a cron job inside your account. Using the latter option, your script can be run every minute, hour or day according to your preference.