Perl is a widely used scripting language which is considered to be one of the most practical languages on the web. It is feature-rich and it's used to create various web-based applications and CGI scripts. What differentiates Perl from most of the alternative languages out there is its support for modules - groups of commands for a certain job that can be integrated into a script by simply calling them i.e. you'll be able to write just one line within your script to get an entire module executed, instead of having the entire code which is already included in the module anyway. As Perl can be used with numerous other programming languages and it comes with a lot of functions depending on what a particular application can do, it's used by many popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, etcetera.
Perl Scripting in Shared Web Hosting
Perl is provided with all of the shared web hosting plans that we provide and you are able to execute any kind of .pl file which you upload inside your account using the File Manager of the Control Panel or some FTP software. The aforementioned will allow you to build an Internet site with all the characteristics that you would like your visitors to have, but PHP does not provide. You can execute a script either manually or automatically using a cron job. Our packages include countless Perl modules which you're able to employ and you can see the complete list in your website hosting account as well as the path that you have to use in your scripts, in order to be able to access these modules. In case you would like to execute a Perl/CGI script with a cron job but your plan does not offer this feature, you'll be able to include as many cron jobs as you require through the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of the website hosting Control Panel.