Perl is a well-known scripting language which is considered to be one of the most useful languages on the Internet. It is feature-rich and it is used to generate a number of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the web is its compatibility with modules - groups of commands for a specific task that can be integrated into a script by calling them i.e. you'll be able to write a single line inside your script to have a whole module executed, instead of having the whole program code that is already included in the module anyway. Because Perl is compatible with various other programming languages and it provides a lot of options depending on what a particular application can do, it's employed by numerous popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.
Perl Scripting in Cloud Hosting
If you obtain a Linux cloud hosting through us, you are able to run Perl/CGI scripts without a problem because we have a large number of modules installed on the cloud platform where all of the shared accounts are generated. With each and every plan, you'll be given access to more than 3000 modules which you can use in your scripts and you can find the complete list inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel along with the path that you need to use in order to be able to access them. In case you use any kind of script that you have downloaded from some third-party site, you can be sure that it will function flawlessly regardless of what modules it requires for that. Any .pl script can be executed manually or you can create a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. In case your website hosting plan doesn't feature cron jobs, you can add this feature with a couple of clicks in the Upgrades area of your Control Panel.