Perl is a very popular scripting language that is regarded as one of the most useful languages on the Internet. It is feature-rich and it's used to generate a number of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages out there is its compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a particular process that can be integrated into a script by simply calling them i.e. you can write only one line in your script to get an entire module executed, rather than having the whole code that's already a part of the module anyway. As Perl supports various other programming languages and it provides a lot of options depending on what a specific application can do, it is employed by a number of renowned companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.

Perl Scripting in Cloud Hosting

Perl is available with all cloud hosting that we provide and you're able to execute any kind of .pl file which you upload inside your account thanks to the File Manager of the Control Panel or an FTP software. The latter will enable you to make an Internet site with all the features that you would like your visitors to have, but PHP cannot supply. You can execute a script either manually or automatically through a cron job. Our plans include lots of Perl modules which you're able to use and you'll see the complete list in your website hosting account as well as the path that you have to include in your scripts, in order to be able to access these modules. If you wish to execute a Perl/CGI script using a cron job yet your plan doesn't offer this feature, you can add as many cron jobs as you require through the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of the hosting Control Panel.

Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to include CGI scripts on your sites or any other Perl-based software for that matter, you will not experience any kind of problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our servers and you're able to call any of them by including the path which you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you've chosen. 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 needs to work. Provided that your .pl files have the appropriate UNIX permissions to make them executable, you are able to select whether a certain script will be executed manually by a guest doing something on your site, or automatically by setting up a cron job in your account. Using the second option, your script can be executed every day, hour or minute depending on your preference.