Perl is a sought-after scripting language that is regarded as one of the most practical languages on the web. It's feature-rich and it is used to create a variety of web-based applications and CGI scripts. What distinguishes Perl from most of the other languages on the internet is its support for modules - sets of commands for a specific process that can be included in a script just by calling them i.e. you can write just one line inside your script to have a whole module executed, instead of having the entire code that's already a part of the module anyway. Because Perl supports many other programming languages and it comes with a lot of options based on what a specific application can do, it is used by a number of popular companies - the BBC, Craigslist, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), cPanel, and many others.
Perl Scripting in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you want to include CGI scripts on your sites or any other Perl-based software for that matter, you will not have any problems in the event that you use a semi-dedicated server account from us. Thousands of Perl modules are installed on our servers and you can call each of them by adding the path that you will find in your Control Panel into the script that you use. When you download some app from a third-party site, for instance, you can rest assured that you will be able to work with it whatever the modules it requires to work. Provided that your .pl files have the right UNIX permissions to make them executable, you'll be able to decide whether a particular script will be run manually by a guest doing something on your website, or automatically by creating a cron job in your account. Using the latter option, your script can be run every minute, hour or day in accordance with your preference.