Perl is a widely used scripting language that is considered to be one of the most practical languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it's used to generate a variety of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the other languages on the market is its support for modules - groups of commands for a particular process which can be included in a script just by calling them which means that you'll be able to write just one line in your script to have an entire module executed, instead of having the entire code that's already a part of the module anyway. As Perl can be used with numerous other programming languages and it comes with a lot of options based on what a particular app can do, it's employed by a number of well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.
Perl Scripting in Hosting
You are able to use CGI scripts and apps created in Perl with all our hosting plans as we have a rich library more than 3000 modules on our custom-made cloud website hosting platform so as to make sure that all of the dependencies for a tailor-made or a ready-made script will be there any time you need them. You'll be able to execute a .pl file in two separate ways - either manually via your site, or automatically via a cron job that will run a specific file on regular intervals. In the event that the plan that you have acquired doesn't come with cron jobs included, you'll be able to add as many as you would like from the Upgrades menu in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. You also need to ensure that the script file features the right executable permissions. Using our shared plans, you will be able to create a site with as many functions and features as you like.