Perl is an excellent programming language that's widely used for making CGI scripts and also a variety of web-based apps. One of its main pros is the fact that it works with modules - ready-made batches of code which are designed to execute numerous tasks and to extend the effectiveness of a certain script without clogging it with unnecessary lines of code. To put it simply, if five processess should be executed, you are able to use five lines of program code to call each of the modules instead of adding hundreds of lines used to generate the actual modules inside your script. Perl is very convenient and it can be used for numerous purposes, that's why many companies have implemented it in their web products or on their resource-demanding sites - cPanel, IMDB, Craigslist, BugZilla, BBC and a lot more. It is ordinarily used along with other programming languages for instance PHP or Python.

Perl Scripting in Cloud Hosting

In case you get a Linux cloud hosting plan from our company, you are able to execute Perl/CGI scripts without any problems as we have a lot of modules present on the cloud platform where all the shared accounts are generated. With every single plan, you'll have access to over 3000 modules that you can employ in your scripts and you can find the complete list within your Hepsia hosting Control Panel as well as the path that you have to use in order to be able to access them. When you use any script that you have downloaded from a third-party site, you can rest assured that it will run correctly whatever the modules it needs for that. Every .pl script can be executed manually or you will be able to create a cron job to do this automatically at a certain time interval. In case your website hosting plan does not feature cron jobs, you can include this feature with just a couple of clicks in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel.