Perl is a well-liked scripting language which is regarded as one of the most useful programming languages on the Internet. It's feature-rich and it is used to set up a variety of web-based apps and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the market is its support for modules - groups of commands for a specific job that can be included in a script just by calling them i.e. you'll be able to write a single line within your script to get a whole module executed, instead of having the entire program code that is already a part of the module anyway. As Perl supports numerous other programming languages and it features a lot of options depending on what a specific app can do, it is used by numerous well-known companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etc.

Perl Scripting in Web Hosting

Perl is available with all of the web hosting plans that we offer and you'll be able to execute any .pl file that you upload inside your account using the File Manager of the Control Panel or some FTP program. This will enable you to make an Internet site with all of the functions that you'd like your visitors to have, but PHP cannot supply. You'll be able to execute a script either manually or automatically using a cron job. Our packages include thousands of Perl modules which you'll be able to employ and you'll see the full list in your website hosting account as well as the path that you need to include in your scripts, in order to be able to access these modules. If you want to execute a Perl/CGI script through a cron job yet your plan doesn't offer this option, you are able to include as many cron jobs as you require from the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of your website hosting Control Panel.