Perl Scripting

Find out why Perl is the go-to scripting language for numerous programmers.

Perl is an effective programming language that is widely used for generating CGI scripts along with different web-based applications. Among its major advantages is the fact that it supports modules - ready-made batches of program code which are designed to do multiple tasks and to enhance the functionality of a given script without clogging it with unnecessary lines of program code. To put it simply, if five jobs should be executed, you're able to employ five lines of program code in order to call each one of the modules instead of adding hundreds of lines used to create the actual modules within your script. Perl is very handy and it may be used for various purposes, that's why a wide range of corporations have included it in their web products or on their high-traffic websites - cPanel, IMDB, Craigslist, BugZilla, BBC and a lot more. It is generally used along with other programming languages for instance PHP or Python.

: Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to include CGI scripts on your sites or any other Perl-based application for that matter, you will not encounter any problems in case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company. Thousands of Perl modules are set up on our servers and you are able to call any of them by including the path that you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you've selected. When you download some app from a third-party website, for instance, you can rest assured that you will be able to work with it no matter what modules it needs to work. Given that your .pl files have the proper UNIX permissions to ensure they are executable, you'll be able to select whether a given script will be executed manually by a guest doing something on your website, or automatically by setting up a cron job in your account. With the aforementioned option, your script can be run every day, hour or minute in accordance with your preference.