Perl is a sought-after scripting language that is regarded as one of the most useful programming languages in the online world. It is feature-rich and it's used to set up a variety of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages on the web is its support for modules - sets of commands for a certain job which can be included in a script by simply calling them i.e. you can write only one line in your script to get a module executed, instead of having the whole code that's already a part of the module anyway. Since Perl can be used with numerous other languages and it provides a lot of functions depending on what a particular application can do, it is used by many well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.
Perl Scripting in Cloud Website Hosting
Perl is provided with all the cloud website hosting packages that we supply and you will be 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 program. The latter will allow you to create a website with all of the functions that you'd like your visitors to have, but PHP doesn't supply. You will be able to execute a script either manually or automatically with a cron job. Our plans feature thousands of Perl modules which you're able to use and you will see a full list in your web hosting account as well as the path that you need to use in your scripts, so as to be able to access these modules. In case you want to execute a Perl/CGI script through a cron job but your package 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 your web hosting Control Panel.
Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you wish to include CGI scripts on your websites or another Perl-based app for that matter, you won't have any kind of problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our machines and you will be able to call them by adding the path that you can find in your Control Panel into the script that you've chosen. If you download some app from a third-party website, for instance, you can be sure that you'll be able to use it regardless of the modules it requires to work. Provided that your .pl files include the right UNIX permissions to make them executable, you'll be able to select whether a given script will be executed manually by a guest doing something on your website, or automatically by creating a cron job in your account. When you use the aforementioned option, your script can be run every minute, hour or day in accordance with your preference.