Perl is a sought-after scripting language that's regarded as being one of the most practical programming languages in the online world. It is feature-rich and it's used to create a number of 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 process that can be integrated into a script by calling them which means that you'll be able to write just a single line in your script to have an entire module executed, rather than having the whole program code which is already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl can be used with a lot of other programming languages and it provides a lot of options depending on what a specific application can do, it's used by lots of famous companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Shared Hosting

Perl is provided with all the shared hosting services that we supply and you can execute any type of .pl file that you upload inside your account thanks to the File Manager of the Control Panel or some FTP program. This will allow you to make a site with all of the features that you would like your visitors to have, but PHP cannot offer. You're able to execute a script either manually or automatically with a cron job. Our plans feature a large number of Perl modules that you're able to use and you can see the whole list in your hosting account along with the path that you have to use in your scripts, in order to be able to access these modules. In case you wish to execute a Perl/CGI script with a cron job yet your plan doesn't offer this feature, you are able to include as many cron jobs as you require through the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of the website hosting Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to include CGI scripts on your sites or any other Perl-based app for that matter, you will not encounter any kind of problems in the event that you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our machines and you'll be able to call them by including the path that you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. Every time you download some app from a third-party site, for instance, you can be sure that you will be able to use it no matter what modules it requires to function. Given that your .pl files include the right UNIX permissions to be executable, you are able to choose whether a certain script will be run manually by a visitor doing something on your website, or automatically by setting up a cron job inside your account. When you use the latter option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute in accordance with your preference.