Are you sure that your host does not offer perl? I assume that since you have perl scripts, you looked for a host that claimed to support perl scripts. Then you singed up and paid whatever fee was required for hosting, and lo and behold you found out that your perl scripts don't work. Have you updated the .pl file permissions to 0755 on the perl scripts? If your perl scripts still do not run, well, that happened to me too once. I'm with 100WebSpace.com. I sent a message to tech support, and they were kind enough to respond promptly. But then nothing happened for a week. I told them if they don't turn on perl support immediately, then I will ask for my money back and go somewhere else. The next day they turned perl support on. You just have to know how to talk to them. That's all.