Perl is a well-known scripting language which is regarded as one of the most practical programming languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it is used to generate a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the market is its compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a certain job which can be integrated into a script by calling them i.e. you're able to write just a single line in your script to have a whole module executed, instead of having the entire program code which is already included in the module anyway. Because Perl is compatible with many other programming languages and it comes with a lot of functions depending on what a given application can do, it is used by numerous well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.
Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting
Perl is available with all Linux shared hosting that we provide and you will be able to execute any kind of .pl file that you upload inside your account thanks to the File Manager of the Control Panel or some FTP software. The latter will enable you to build a website with all of the functions that you would like your visitors to have, but PHP does not offer. You can execute a script either manually or automatically through a cron job. Our plans include thousands of Perl modules which you are able to use and you can see the whole list in your website hosting account as well as the path which you have to include in your scripts, to be able to access these modules. In case you would like to execute a Perl/CGI script using a cron job but your plan doesn't offer this option, you are able to include as many cron jobs as you require via the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of your web 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 application for that matter, you won't have any problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our machines and you can call any of them by adding the path which you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. When you download some app from a third-party site, for example, you can be sure that you'll be able to use it no matter what modules it requires to function. As long as your .pl files include the proper UNIX permissions to be executable, you'll be able to select whether a particular script will be executed manually by a guest doing something on your site, or automatically by creating a cron job inside your account. With the aforementioned option, your script can be executed every minute, hour or day in accordance with your preference.