I contacted my webhoster and asked them to install it but so far they seem to be unwilling to do so. The last statement from them was: PHP is used more often than Perl so please think about using PHP.

Option 1: name and shame them here so we all know to avoid them in future.

Option 2: reply to them saying "AWS is used more often than you so I'm thinking about using AWS instead".

Glad to see you now have a workaround to this particular problem, however.